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queer adjective 1.•his diction is archaic and queer:odd, strange, unusual, funny, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, uncanny, freakish, eerie, unnatural | unconventional, unorthodox, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, untypical, out of the ordinary, incongruous, irregular | puzzling, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable | informal fishy, spooky, bizarro, freaky. ANT normal. 2.•queer culture. See gay (sense 1 of the adjective). USAGE queer The word queer was first used to mean ‘homosexual’ in the early 20th century: it was originally, and often still is, a deliberately offensive and aggressive term when used by heterosexual people. In recent years, however, many gay people have taken the word queer and deliberately used it in place of gay or homosexual, in an attempt, by using the word positively, to deprive it of its negative power. This use of queer is now well established and widely used among gay people (esp. as an adjective or noun modifier, as in •queer rights; •queer theory) and at present exists alongside the other, deliberately offensive, use. (This use is similar to the way in which a racial epithet may be used •within a racial group, but not by outsiders.).Usage notes show additional guidance on finer points of English usage. |