- (old-fashioned) strange or unusual synonym odd
- His face was a queer pink colour.
- She had a queer feeling that she was being watched.
- I was beginning to feel very queer.
- It all sounds a bit queer to me.
- (taboo, offensive, slang) an offensive way of describing a gay person, especially a man, which is, however, also used by some gay people about themselvesTopics People in societyc2
- describing or relating to a sexual identity or gender identity that is different from traditional ideas about sex and gender, for example if somebody is non-binary, bisexual or transgender
- queer culture
Word Originearly 16th cent.: considered to be from German quer ‘oblique, perverse’, but the origin is doubtful.
Idioms
See queer in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee queer in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishan odd/a queer fish
- (old-fashioned, British English) a person who is slightly strange or crazy
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