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語源

queer +‎ -y

形容詞

queery (comparative more queery, superlative most queery)

1. (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.

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名詞

queery (複数形 queeries)

1. (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.'

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