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Definition of Queer

Queer

To puzzle.

To ridicule; to banter; to rally.

To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.

At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.

Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.

Counterfeit money.

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Queer Quotations

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Virginia Woolf

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
Louisa May Alcott

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
Anne Sullivan

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
David Herbert Lawrence

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
Ted Allen

No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
Ted Allen

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
Nathan Lane

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
John Galsworthy

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae Brown

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
Leslie Fiedler

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert Owen

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
Thom Gunn

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Carrie P. Snow

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
Jai Rodriguez

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
Derek Jarman

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
Carlo Collodi

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
Samuel E. Morison

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.
Kyan Douglas

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.
Kyan Douglas

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
Dorothy Dix

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.
James Newman

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
Judith Butler

Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.
Anthony Rapp

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
Laura Innes

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Queer Translations

queer in German is seltsam, verschroben
queer in Norwegian is merkelig, rar, homofil
queer in Swedish is egen, besynnerlig, underlig

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