queery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
queery (comparative more queery, superlative most queery)
- (dated, colloquial, regional) Queer; curious; strange.
- 1866, Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas, page 102:
- It air a queery lookin' plant, appearin' more like a church steeple than a tree.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
queery (plural queeries)
- (slang, derogatory) A homosexual.
- 2006, Ben Summerskill, The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century, page 132:
- A boy was sitting by himself, and all the other schoolboys were jolly and happy and suddenly one of them said: 'Ugh, don't sit beside him. He's a queery. He's a queery.'