Dictionary: QUEER – QUEERZ

• QUEER
adj. 1. crazy, eccentric …1508
adj. 2. bad; worthless; counterfeit…1561 thieves’ cant
adj. 3. ill …1781 sl.
adj. 4. amusing, funny, humorous, entertaining …1787 Sc. obs.
adj. 5. drunk …1848 sl.
adj. 6. ill-tempered, captious; unsociable from some fancied slight or insult …1885 Eng. dial.
adj. 7. crazy, eccentric …1508
adj. 8. amusing, funny, humorous, entertaining …1787 Sc. obs.
adj. 9. of machinery, etc.: out of order …L19 sl.
adj. 10. (usually derogatory) homosexual …1914 US sl.
adj. 11. in difficulties …1920s sl.
adj. 12. catering to or patronized by homosexuals …1957 US sl.
adj. 13. driven by deep and perverse sexual desires …1967 US sl.
adj. 14. not good, out of fashion …1997 US sl.
adj. 15. effeminate, unmanly …20C sl., disparaging and offensive
adv. 1. very …Bk1892 Ireland
adv. 2. unsociably, ill-temperedly …1896 Eng. dial.
adv. 3. in an odd manner, in a peculiar way; very …1916 Sc.
n. 1. the choir or chancel of a church; the persons composing the choir …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a hoax, a confidence trick …M18 sl.
n. 3. a look on one’s face; a look at something …L19 sl.
n. 4. a vault …1900 Sc.
n. 5. a quire of paper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 6. counterfeit money; forged banknotes or bonds …1812 sl.
n. 7. money … Bk1903 sl.
n. 8. an eccentric person …1940s sl.
n. 9. a homosexual man or lesbian …1914 US sl., usually derogatory
n. 10. a fool, a simpleton …1950s Aust. sl.
n. 11. one who works hard …1960s US college sl.
vb. 1. to quiz or ridicule; to puzzle …1790 sl.
vb. 2. to impose on, to swindle, to cheat …1797 sl.
vb. 3. to act in an odd manner …E19 sl.
vb. 4. to spoil, to put out of order …1812 sl.
vb. 5. to put to confusion; to make or cause to feel queer; to cause to go wrong …1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to humiliate …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
vb. 7. of a person: to spoil the reputation of; to spoil someone’s efforts or opportunities …1910s US sl.
vb. 8. to cause trouble for …1910s US sl.
vb. 9. to inquire …1933 Sc.
vb. 10. to intoxicate; to make dead drunk …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 11. to abuse sexually …1970s sl.
 
• QUEERACH
n. the act of working in a weak, trifling manner; the act of nursing in an over-dainty manner …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. to do any kind of work in a weak, trifling manner; to nurse in an over-dainty manner …Bk1905 Sc.
 
• QUEER A FLAT
vb. to hoodwink a gullible victim …L18 sl.
 
• QUEERALITIES
n. eccentricities, peculiarities …20C Irish sl.
 
• QUEER A PITCH
vb. to spoil a situation or a circumstance; to undermine someone’s efforts …1875 UK sl.
 
• QUEER AS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
adj. 1. extremely odd …1950s sl.
adj. 2. obviously homosexual …1973 UK sl.
adj. 3. unusual or suspicious …1980 UK sl.
 
• QUEER AS A COOT
adj. homosexual …1922 sl., mainly derogatory
 
• QUEER AS A FOUR-DOLLAR BILL
adj. ostentatiously homosexual …1950s sl., orig. US
 
• QUEER AS A FOUR-SPEED WALKING STICK
adj. unusual; ostentatiously homosexual …1984 UK sl.
 
• QUEER AS A LEFT-HANDED CORKSCREW
adj. unusual; ostentatiously homosexual …1970s UK sl.
 
• QUEER AS A NINE-BOB NOTE
adj. 1. unusual, particularly suspicious …1960s sl.
adj. 2. ostentatiously homosexual …1984 UK sl.
 
• QUEER AS A NINE-BOB WATCH
adj. suspicious …1984 UK sl.
 
• QUEER AS A NINE-DOLLAR BILL
adj. ostentatiously homosexual …1950s sl., orig. US
 
• QUEER AS A THREE-DOLLAR BILL
adj. 1. extremely odd …1950s sl., orig. US
adj. 2. ostentatiously homosexual …1966 US sl.
 
• QUEER AS A THREE-POUND NOTE
adj. extremely odd …1950s sl.
 
• QUEER AS A TREE FULL OF OWLS 
adj. eccentric …1976 Amer. sl.
 
• QUEER AS A TWO-QUID NOTE
adj. unusual, particularly suspicious …1960s sl.
 
• QUEER AS BEER
adj. extremely odd; outrageously homosexual …1990s Aust. sl.
 
• QUEER AS CHLOE
adj. homosexual …1980s NZ sl.
 
• QUEER AS DICK’S HATBAND
adj. 1. odd, eccentric …18C sl.
adj. 2. referring to something one cannot recognize or identify …18C sl.
adj. 3. out of sorts, dispirited, ‘under the weather’ …L18 sl.
adj. 4. ridiculously comical …1856 Eng. dial.
adj. 5. in a very morose or sullen temper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• QUEER AS DUCK SOUP
adj. 1. very strange or odd …1940s US sl.
adj. 2. ostentatiously homosexual or effeminate …1940s US sl.
 
• QUEER AS FUCK
adj. definitely homosexual; ostentatiously gay ….1997 Aust. sl.
 
• QUEER BAIL
n. fraudulent bail …L18 sl.
 
• QUEERBAIT
n. 1. an effeminate young boy who attracts, or is supposed to attract, older male homosexuals …1950s sl.
n. 2. a man who commands the attention of homosexual men, whether he is homosexual or not …1957 US sl.
vb. to seek out a homosexual encounter for money …1950s sl.
 
• QUEER-BASHER
n. one who assaults homosexuals …1970 sl.
 
• QUEER-BASHING
n. an attack (usually physical) of a homosexual because of his sexuality …1970 UK sl.
 
• QUEER BEAK
n. an incorruptible magistrate …19C UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER BEER
n. ‘near beer’, beer with a low alcohol content, weak, watery beer …1976 US sl.
 
• QUEER BELCH
n. sour beer …M19 sl.
 
• QUEER BIRD
n. 1. a mendicant villain who, recently released from prison, returns to robbery, specializing in stealing horses …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. an odd, eccentric person …M19 sl.
n. 3. a heterosexual who dabbles in homosexuality …1960s US homosexual sl.
 
• QUEER BIT
n. counterfeit money …L18 sl.
 
• QUEER BITCH
n. an odd, out of the way fellow …L18 sl.
 
• QUEER BIT-MAKER
n. a coiner, a counterfeiter …L18 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER BLOWING
n. an ugly woman …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER BLUFFER
n. the master of a public house; a sneaking, cut-throat innkeeper …L17 cant
 
• QUEER BOOZE
n. inferior beer; ‘small and naughtye drynke’ (Harman) …c1750 cant
 
• QUEER BOUNG
n. an empty purse …M17 cant
 
• QUEER BUB
n. second-rate or sour beer …M17 sl.
 
• QUEER BUFFER
n. a sneaking, cutthroat ale-house keeper or innkeeper …L17 sl.
 
• QUEER BUNG
n. an empty purse (viewed as an object of robbery) …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER CARD
n. a person odd in manner, strange in opinion …19C colloq.
 
• QUEER CATTLE
n. odd or strange people …20C sl.
 
• QUEER CHECKER
n. in the theatre: a swindling box-keeper …L18 theatrical sl.
 
• QUEER CHUM
n. a suspicious companion …E19 sl.
 
• QUEER CLOUT
n. a cheap, probably cotton, handkerchief that as such is not worth stealing …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER COLE
n. counterfeit money …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER COLE FENCER
n. the distributor of counterfeit money …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER COLE MAKER
n. a counterfeiter …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER COVE
n. 1. a villain …L16 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. a poor man …M18 sl.
n. 3. a turnkey …M19 sl.
 
• QUEER CUFFEN
n. a Justice of the Peace …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER CUFFIN
n. 1. a Justice of the Peace …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. a peasant …L17 sl.
 
• QUEER CULL
n. 1. a passer of counterfeit money …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. a foolish dandy, a fop …L17 sl.
n. 3. a poor, ill-dressed person …L17 sl.
 
• QUEER CUSTOMER
n. an odd or eccentric person …M19 sl.
 
• QUEER DEAL
n. a great deal …1898 Ireland
 
• QUEER DEGEN
n. a brass, iron, or steel-hilted sword, with no special ornamentation …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER DIVER
n. a bungling, incompetent pickpocket …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER DOXY
n. a slatternly woman …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER DRAWERS
n. yarn, coarse worsted, ordinary or old stockings …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER DUKE
n. 1. a lean, half-starved person …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. an impoverished gentleman …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEERED
adj. 1. tipsy …E19 sl.
adj. 2. bewildered; perplexed; baffled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
• QUEERED AND QUIAMMED
adj. intricate, as a piece of carving …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• QUEER ‘EM
n. the gallows …E19 sl.
 
• QUEER-FACED
adj. a general pejorative …1980s sl.
 
• QUEER-FAR’D
adj. having a queer countenance or queer features …1805 Eng. dial.
 
• QUEER FELLOW
n. 1. a person odd in manner, strange in opinion …1712 colloq.
n. 2. a prisoner condemned to hang …1980s sl.
 
• QUEER FISH
n. a person odd in manner, strange in opinion …1772 colloq.
 
• QUEER FOR
adj. obsessed with, sexually or otherwise …1940s sl.
 
• QUEER FUN
n. a cheat or trick that does not work out as intended …L7 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER-GAMMED
adj. 1. lame, crippled …L18 sl.
adj. 2. bandy-legged …E19 sl.
 
• QUEER GILL
n. 1. a shabby fellow …19C sl.
n. 2. an untrusting, suspicious person …19C sl.
 
• QUEER-GOTTEN
adj. of uncertain parentage …1894 Sc.
 
• QUEER GUM
n. strange talk …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER HARP
n. an odd person …20C Irish sl.
 
• QUEER HAWK
n. an odd person …20C Irish sl.
 
• QUEERIE
n. a male homosexual …1938 sl., mainly derogatory
 
• QUEERIN
adj. prying, inquisitive …1933 Sc.
 
• QUEER IN THE ATTIC
adj. drunk …1859 sl.
 
• QUEER IN THE GARRET
adj. eccentric, mad …L18 sl.
 
• QUEER IN THE NUT
adj. mad, eccentric …1950s sl.
 
• QUEER IN THE UPPER STOREY
adj. eccentric, mad …L18 sl.
 
• QUEERIOSITY
n. curiosity, something strange …1904 Sc.
 
• QUEERISH
adj. not well in health, rather uncomfortable …1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
• QUEERISHNESS
n. an uneasy sensation …1803 Sc.
 
• QUEERISOME
adj. odd, strange, queer, fey …1900 Amer. dial.
 
• QUEERITY
n. queerness, oddity …1711
 
• QUEER JACK
n. counterfeit money …1949 US sl.
 
• QUEER KEN
n. 1. a prison …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. a house not worth robbing …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER KICKS
n. old, worn-out trousers …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER LAMPS
n. sore or weak eyes …1812 sl.
 
• QUEER LAP
n. bad liquor …L18 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER LOT
n. a large amount, a considerable quantity …1921 Sc. & Amer. dial.
 
• QUEERLY
adj. queer, odd; slightly demented …1870 Eng. dial.
adv. 1. in a criminal manner …L17 sl.
adv. 2. in a bad or rascally manner …a1700 cant obs.
adv. 3. considerably, extraordinarily …1896 Eng. dial.
 
• QUEER’M
n. the gallows …E19 sl.
 
• QUEER MERCHANT
n. an odd or eccentric person …M19 sl.
 
• QUEER MONEY
n. counterfeit money …19C UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER MORT
n. 1. a woman suffering from venereal disease; a dirty drab; a jilting wench …M17 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. a poor woman …M18 sl.
 
• QUEER NAB
n. a cheap, shabby hat; hence, one that is not worth stealing …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEERNESS
n. 1. an estrangement …1896 Eng. dial.
n. 2. homosexuality …1910s sl.
 
• QUEERNESSES AND QUIAMS
n. whims of all sorts …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• QUEER NICKS
n. worn-out breeches …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER-OGLED
adj. squinting …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER OGLES
n. cross eyes …E19 UK criminals; sl.
 
• QUEER ON
adj. homosexually attracted to …1940s sl., orig. Aust.
 
• QUEEROUS
adj. curious …1903 Amer. dial.
 
• QUEER PAPER
n. 1. counterfeit paper money …M19 sl.
n. 2. something dubious or unreliable …M19 sl.
 
• QUEER PATTER
n. a foreign language …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER PEEPER
n. a badly made, hence distorting mirror …L17 sl.
 
• QUEER PEEPERS
n. squinting or short-sighted eyes …18C UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER PEOPLE
n. criminals …1940s UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER PLACE
n. 1. a prison …1920s sl.
n. 2. a lavatory …1940s sl.
 
• QUEER PLUNGER
n. a confidence trickster who plunges into water and is saved from ‘drowning’ …L18 sl.
 
• QUEER PRANCER
n. 1. a second-rate horse …L17 sl.
n. 2. an ageing prostitute …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 3. a cowardly horse thief …18C sl.
 
• QUEER PROPER
adj. of language: formal or standard, as opposed to colloquial or dialectal …1963 Amer. dial.
 
• QUEER PUT
n. an odd, simple person …E19 sl.
 
• QUEER RAG
n. counterfeit money …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER RIDGE
n. counterfeited gold coins …M19 US criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER-ROLLER
n. one who beats up homosexual men …1960s sl.
 
• QUEER-ROLLING
n. the practice of attacking and robbing homosexuals …1977 UK sl.
 
• QUEER ROOSTER
n. a police spy who frequents thieves’ haunts, often feigning sleep in order to listen to their conversations; an informer …L18 sl.
 
• QUEER ROTAN
n. a run-down coach …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER RUMS
n. confusing talk …E19 sl.
 
• QUEERS
n. something odd or strange and surprising; news …1825 Sc. obs.
 
• THE QUEERS
n. sea-sickness …L19 sl.
 
• QUEER SCREENS
n. forged banknotes …19C UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER SHOVER
n. a passer of counterfeit money …L19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER’S LUNCH BOX
n. the male crotch …1964 US sl.
 
• QUEERSMAN
n. one who makes or distributes counterfeit money …M18 sl.
 
• QUEER SOFT
n. counterfeit money …M19 sl.
 
• QUEERSOME
adj. rather queer, odd, strange …1848 Sc. & N. Eng. & Amer. dial.
 
• QUEER SOMEONE’S OGLES
vb. to get or give a black eye …L18 sl.
 
• QUEER START
n. a strange affair; an odd situation …M19 sl.
 
• QUEER STICK
n. an odd person; an eccentric person …L19 sl.
 
• A QUEER STICK TO MAKE A THIVEL OF
phr. said of an awkward person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• QUEER STREET
n. 1. an imaginary street where people in difficulties are supposed to reside; hence, any difficulty, fix, or trouble, bad circumstances, debt, illness, etc. …1837 sl.
n. 2. the world of homosexuality …1960s US sl.
 
• QUEER STUFF
n. counterfeit money …M18 sl.
 
• QUEER-TAKEN
adj. taken aback, surprised, disconcerted …1858 Sc.
 
• QUEER TATS
n. false dice …L18 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER THE ACT
vb. to interfere, to spoil or thwart someone’s plans …1910s US sl.
 
• QUEER THE GAME
vb. to cause trouble for someone …L18 US criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER THE NOOSE
vb. to escape the gallows …E19 sl.
 
• QUEER THE PITCH
vb. to spoil the chances of success …1875 Brit. colloq.
 
• QUEER THE QUOD
vb. to break out of jail …L18 US criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER THE STIFLER
vb. to escape the gallows …E19 sl.
 
• THE QUEER THIEF OF THE WORLD
n. a thief, a rogue …1896 Ireland
 
• QUEER THIMBLE
n. a watch of no value …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER TOPPING
n. a second-rate or worn-out wig …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEERUM
n. the gallows …E19 sl.
 
• QUEER UP
n. male homosexual intercourse …1950s sl.
 
• QUEERVERT
n. a homosexual, usually male …1910s sl.
 
• QUEER VINEGAR
n. a worn-out woman’s cloak …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
• QUEER WAYS
adj. strange, nervous, squeamish …1827 Sc.
adv. (as ‘queerways’) in not quite a normal state, slightly unwell …1827 Sc.
 
• QUEER WEDGE
n. 1. a large belt or shoe buckle …L18 sl.
n. 2. adulterated gold or silver …19C sl.
n. 3. pointed shoes …E19 sl.
 
• QUEERY
adj. 1. strange, odd, queer, different …1860 Sc. & Amer. dial.
adj. 2. shaky …M19 sl.
n. 1. a strange or curious circumstance; a queer thing, an oddity …1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a homosexual, usually male …1910s sl.
n. 3. one who is strange or odd; a person who is too particular or fussy …1968 Amer. dial.