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单词 queer
释义
queer1 adjectivequeer2 nounqueer3 verb
queerqueer1 /kwɪə $ kwɪr/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINqueer1
Origin:
1500-1600 Perhaps from German quer ‘going across’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a queer sound
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And she thought, with a queer aching, must we part again so soon?
  • Did you run across that queer sort Of legend about a wild goose?
  • Hand flying to mouth, she gave a queer, trembly laugh and looked at her children.
  • I mean, he's respected me in a queer way.
  • It was queer, how well she still knew him.
  • There's been queer goings on with her and nursemaids.
1taboo an offensive word used to describe someone who is homosexual, especially a man. Do not use this word.2old-fashioned strange or difficult to explain:  She gave a queer laugh. Hank was beginning to feel a little queer.3queer in the head old-fashioned slightly crazyqueerly adverb:  Sue looked at him queerly.
queer1 adjectivequeer2 nounqueer3 verb
queerqueer2 noun [countable] taboo an offensive word for a homosexual person, especially a man. Do not use this word.
queer1 adjectivequeer2 nounqueer3 verb
queerqueer3 verb Verb Table
VERB TABLE
queer (BrE)
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyqueer (BrE)
he, she, itqueers (BrE)
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyqueered (BrE)
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave queered (BrE)
he, she, ithas queered (BrE)
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad queered (BrE)
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill queer
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have queered (BrE)
Continuous Form
PresentIam queering (BrE)
he, she, itis queering (BrE)
you, we, theyare queering (BrE)
PastI, he, she, itwas queering (BrE)
you, we, theywere queering (BrE)
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been queering (BrE)
he, she, ithas been queering (BrE)
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been queering (BrE)
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be queering (BrE)
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been queering (BrE)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It may also queer the pitch for health-care reforms, which will need big tax increases.
queer somebody’s pitch/queer the pitch for somebody British English informal to make it difficult for someone to do something that they had planned to do
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