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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Queer \Queer\ (kw[=e]r), adjective [Compar. {Queerer} (kw[=e]r"[~e]r); superl. {Queerest}.] [G. quer cross, oblique, athwart (cf. querkopf a queer fellow), {OHG}. twer, twerh, dwerah; akin to D. dvars, AS, [thorn]weorh thwart, bent, twisted, Icel. [thorn]verr thwart, transverse, Goth. [thorn]wa['i]rhs angry, and perh. to L. torqyere to twist, and E. through. Cf. {Torture}, {Through}, {Thwart}, adjective]
1. At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act. '' A queer look.'' --W. Irving.
2. Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction. [Colloq.]
3. homosexual. [disparaging and offensive] [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Queer \Queer\, noun
1. Counterfeit money. [Slang]
2. a homosexual. [disparaging and offensive] [PJC]
{To shove the queer}, to put counterfeit money in circulation. [Slang]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Queer \Queer\ (kw[=e]r), verb (used with an object) [From {Queer}, adjective]
1. To puzzle. [Prov. Eng. or Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To ridicule; to banter; to rally. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
queer
adjective
1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: {curious}, {funny}, {odd}, {peculiar}, {rum}, {rummy}, {singular}]
2: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: {fishy}, {funny}, {shady}, {suspect}, {suspicious}]
3: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: {gay}, {homophile(a)}]
noun: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: {fagot}, {faggot}, {fag}, {fairy}, {nance}, {pansy}, {queen}, {poof}, {poove}, {pouf}]
verb
1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: {thwart}, {spoil}, {scotch}, {foil}, {cross}, {frustrate}, {baffle}, {bilk}]
2: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position [syn: {expose}, {scupper}, {endanger}, {peril}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
298 Moby Thesaurus words for "queer": AC-DC, abnormal, absurd, affected, amphierotic, anomalous, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, atypical, auntie, autoerotic, bad check, bad money, ball up, base coin, bastard, batty, bereft of reason, bi-guy, bisexed, bisexual, bizarre, bogus, bogus money, bollix, bollix up, botch, brainsick, brummagem, bugger, bugger up, bull dyke, bungle, butch, catamite, chicken, colorable, colored, cook, counterfeit, counterfeit money, counterfeited, crab, crackbrained, cracked, cramp, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, crimp, cripple, crotchety, curious, daft, de-energize, debilitate, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, destroy, deviant, deviative, different, disable, disenable, disoriented, distorted, distraught, divergent, dizzy, dotty, doubtful, drain, dressed up, droll, dubious, dummy, dyke, eccentric, effeminate, embellished, embroidered, enfeeble, erratic, ersatz, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, factitious, fag, faggot, faint, fairy, fake, faked, false money, falsified, feigned, femme, fey, fictitious, fictive, fishy, flaky, flighty, flit, forgery, foul up, freaked out, freakish, freaky, fricatrice, fruit, funny, garbled, gay, giddy, green goods, gum, gum up, gunsel, hallucinated, hamstring, hash up, hipped, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hors de combat, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, inactivate, incapacitate, incongruous, insane, invert, inverted, irrational, irregular, junky, kibosh, kinky, kite, kooky, lame, laughable, lesbian, light-headed, loco, loony, louse up, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, maim, make-believe, man-made, manic, mannish, mar, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mess up, mock, moon-struck, muck up, muddle, muff, mysterious, nance, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off the wall, offbeat, out, outlandish, outre, pansy, passing strange, pathic, peculiar, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, play hell with, play hob with, poorly, potty, pretended, pseudo, psycho, punk, put, put-on, puzzling, quaint, qualmish, qualmy, quasi, queasy, queen, queer the works, questionable, quirky, reasonless, remarkable, ridiculous, rubber check, ruin, sabotage, sapphic, sapphist, screw up, screwball, screwy, self-styled, senseless, shady, sham, shoddy, sick, simulated, singular, sink, snafu, snarl up, so-called, soi-disant, spike, spoil, spurious, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, supposititious, suspect, suspicious, synthetic, tetched, tin, tinsel, titivated, touched, transvestite, tribade, tribadistic, twisted, unauthentic, unbalanced, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, uneasy, unexampled, unfit, ungenuine, unhinged, unnatural, unorthodox, unparalleled, unreal, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unusual, unwell, vertiginous, wacky, wandering, warped, weaken, weird, whimsical, wing, witless, wondrous strange, wreck
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