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Meanings of queer in English

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Homosexual or arousing homosexual desires.

        Related terms
        Portuguese
        veado
        Catalan
        monya
        Spanish
        pluma

        Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.

            veado
            Portuguese
            contrariar
            Catalan
            desbaratar
            Spanish
            frustrar

            To hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.

                Related terms
                contrariar
                Portuguese
                arriscar
                Catalan
                comprometre
                Spanish
                exponer

                Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.

                      arriscar
                      Usage of queer in English
                      1
                      I wrote this article about the word 'queer' in the paper today.
                      The Irish Times
                      2
                      Artist and queer rights advocate Jamiee Stockman-Young said the issue was complex.
                      Radio NZ
                      3
                      Does queer art, some ask, refer to a specific school of protest?
                      The Guardian
                      4
                      For queer and transgender Pakistanis, however, the risks are far more ubiquitous.
                      The Guardian
                      5
                      He spoke in a queer, hard voice; and instantly left the room.
                      Clayhanger
                      6
                      Hence the queer ways about him, though now some time from home.
                      Moby Dick
                      7
                      Two special films this week illuminate opposite ends of the queer experience.
                      The Guardian
                      8
                      Internationally, Elim is often seen as being at odds with queer rights.
                      Radio NZ
                      9
                      She felt remarkably strong and, in a queer sort of way, wonderful.
                      The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
                      10
                      The second bell rings, the gentlemen in the queer overcoat gets up.
                      The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
                      11
                      There was a queer light in the eyes of the shiftless one.
                      The Forest Runners: A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kent...
                      12
                      In places it seemed to him fine, and in other places queer.
                      The Dark Flower
                      13
                      She was out of the type; she had queer satisfactions and enthusiasms.
                      The Imperialist
                      14
                      It was queer to see what a change had come over them.
                      Five on a treasure island
                      15
                      The mothers were knitting and sewing and chattering in their queer language.
                      A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
                      16
                      The queer paper of the Feathers of the Sun was not money.
                      A Son of the Sun
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                      Rare
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