queer

英 [kwɪə] 美 [kwɪr]

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※ 提供单词"queer"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

queer 奇怪的，同性恋

来自德语quer,奇怪的，变态的，来自PIE*terkw,弯，转，词源同turn,torque.比喻用法，引申词义同性恋。字母t,q 音变，比较quarter,tetragram.

queer: queer: [16] Queer was probably borrowed from German quer ‘across, oblique’, hence ‘perverse’. This went back to a prehistoric Indo- European *twerk-, which also produced English thwart and Latin torquēre ‘twist’ (source of English torch, torture, etc).
=> thwart, torch, torment, tort, torture
queer (adj.): c. 1500, "strange, peculiar, eccentric," from Scottish, perhaps from Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer "oblique, off-center," related to German quer "oblique, perverse, odd," from Old High German twerh "oblique," from PIE root *terkw- "to turn, twist, wind" (see thwart (adv.)).

Sense of "homosexual" first recorded 1922; the noun in this sense is 1935, from the adjective. Related: Queerly. Queer studies as an academic discipline attested from 1994.
queer (v.): "to spoil, ruin," 1812, from queer (adj.). Related: Queered; queering. Earlier it meant "to puzzle, ridicule, cheat" (1790). To queer the pitch (1846) is in reference to the patter of an itinerant tradesman or showman (see pitch (n.1)).
These wanderers, and those who are still seen occasionally in the back streets of the metropolis, are said to 'go a-pitching ;' the spot they select for their performance is their 'pitch,' and any interruption of their feats, such as an accident, or the interference of a policeman, is said to 'queer the pitch,'--in other words, to spoil it. [Thomas Frost, "Circus Life and Circus Celebrities," London, 1875]

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1. " Queer " is the word often used euphemistically for " mad ".: “ Queer ” 这个词常用作 “ mad ” 的委婉语.

2. I could not help but think this is a very queer life.: 我忍不住会认为这是一种非常怪异的生活。