B2adverb · rare

queer

queer · more queer · most queer

QueerlyQueerly.

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UK/kwɪə/US/kwɪɹ/

» There's nowt as queer as folk.

So etwas kommt vor. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Meaning

2 senses

(not comparable, usually)Queerly.
(Ireland, not comparable, usually)Very, extremely.
Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!

Examples

55 sentences

There's nowt as queer as folk.
deSo etwas kommt vor. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Are you as queer as I am?
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He had a queer expression on his face.
ruУ него было нелепое выражение лица. — akrav
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She was getting used to queer things happening.
deSie gewöhnte sich allmählich daran, dass seltsame Dinge passierten. — Tamy
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A queer person is not a conversation piece.
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Origin

Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (

Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-centre”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.

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