Queer

Definition: Queer

Queer

Adjective

1. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior".

2. (informal) not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior".

3. Homosexual or arousing homosexual desires.

Noun

1. Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man.

Verb

1. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent".

2. Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "queer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Literature

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Queer

Laughingstock

Original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon; (jester); pantomimist; (actor).

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite.

Crosswords: Queer

We're queer! Get used to it (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

If being a man means being what you are, I'd rather be queer. (Porky's; writing credit: Bob Clark)

You sold me queer giraffes (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni)

I have a queer feelin' there's going to be a strange face in heaven in the mornin' (The Informer; writing credit: Dudley Nichols; Liam O'Flaherty)

It's just that you're two inches from my head, polluting my brain with your inane ramblings and buzzing through those chips like some queer gopher (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Queer Birds (1945)

A Queer Quarantine (1914)

The Barber's Queer Customer (1900)

Queer Fish That Swim in the Sea (1898)

The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (2003)

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Books

• Melancholia and Moralism : Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (reference)

• Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists (reference)

• Queer Jews (reference)

• Queer New York City 2002/2003: The Annual Guide to Gay & Lesbian NYC (reference)

• Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Critical Theory and Queer Culture (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Queer As F**K (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Queer as Folk [RCA Original Television Soundtrack] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The Treasury Spectre, : or the Head of the Nation in a Queer Situation. / Designed by Mary Cruikshank. [I. Cruikshank]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Rather Queer / W. Hunt. W. Holl. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Queer how backward the dear fellows seem!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Yes, an' I'll tell ye somethin' else queer about him : Moskeeters won't tech him!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so well used to queer things happening

There are some queer stains on these great men.

That had the queer smell

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "queer": a queer body ♦ a queer fish ♦ be in queer street ♦ be queer ♦ feel queer ♦ i feel queer ♦ in queer street ♦ queer beat ♦ queer bird ♦ queer customer ♦ queer duck ♦ queer fellow ♦ queer fish ♦ queer in the head ♦ queer money ♦ queer smb.'s pitch ♦ queer the pitch ♦ queer to smb.'s pitch ♦ To shove the queer. Additional references.

Beginning with "queer": queer-bashing, queer-looking.

Albanian

prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), pederast (bugger, fag, pederast, sod, sodomite), mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), më merren mendtë, i veçantë (characteristic, detached, discrete, distinct, distinctive, especial, exceptional, exclusive, extra, extra special, individual, odd, of one's own, off, particular, particularized, peculiar, pet, racy, rare, separate, single, sole, special, specific, uncommon), i dyshimtë (dingy, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, left handed, misgiving, moot, precarious, problematic, suspect, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, wildcat), i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunk, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, lit, muzzy, oiled, pissed, potted, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical), dyshues (distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, incredulous, leery, mistrustful, shady, suspicious, wary), bythëqirë, çmendje (derangement, going mad). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مريب (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, jack, problematic, questionable, suspicious), ‏لوطي (gay, homo, homosexual, invert, paederast, pansy, pederast, ponce, poof, prostitute), ‏غريب الأطوار (capricious, crackpot, cranky, curious, eccentric, nutty, odd, off beat, peculiar, weird, weirdo, whimsical), ‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏عملة زائفة, ‏عليل (below par, bland, ill, sick), ‏إمؤاة سحاقية, ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), ‏شاذ جنسيا (paederast, pederast), ‏شاذ الأطوار, ‏شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неразположен (averse, chippy, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of sorts, poorly, seedy, squeamish, under the weather, unwell), педераст (bugger, fag, faggot, fagot, homosexual, pansy, pederast, pouf, quean, queen, sod, sodomite, swish), педерастичен, подправен (adulterate, adulterine, corrupt, counterfeit, feigned, forged, fraudulent, imitation, impure, pinchbeck, seasoned, sham, spiced, spicy, supposititious), подозрителен (distrustful, doubtful, equivocal, jealous, leery, mistrustful, suspect, suspicious), поставям в неудобно положение (handicap), ексцентричен (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, kinky, lunatic, off beat, original, outrageous, outre, peculiar, pixilated, singular, viewy), пиян (cockeyed, drunk, drunken, incapable, inebriate, intoxicated, jagged, juiced, lit, loaded, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ripe, screwed, screwy, shot, slaughtered, soused, stoned, tanked, tight, under the table, wet), не съвсем почтен, съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), особен (distinct, especial, exclusive, fanciful, funny, idiosyncratic, individual, odd, original, particular, peculiar, special, specific, strange, uncommon), фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), чудат (comic, comical, crackpot, eccentric, extravagant, faddish, faddy, odd, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, vagrant, viewy), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), смахнат (bughouse, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, dippy, kinky, mental, nutty, off one's rocker, potty, soft, touched, up the pole, wacky, zany), странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), налудничав (mad, madcap, nutty, possessed, whacked, wild). (various references)

Chinese 

怪 (to blame), 奇特 (peculiar, strange), 奇怪 (grotesque, ODD, Outlandish, Peculiar, strange), 古怪 (eccentric, grotesque, oddly), 不是味�' (a bit off, amiss, be upset, feel bad, fishy, not quite right, not the right flavor), 不對 (abnormal, amiss, incorrect, wrong). (various references)

Czech

zvláštní (curious, extra, extraordinary, funny, individual, intriguing, odd, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, singular, special, strange, unique, weird), výstřední (crazy, eccentric, extravagant, fantastic, garish, high-flown), podivný (curious, eldritch, freak, peculiar, quaint, rum, strange, utter, weird), podezřelý (fishy, phoney, phony, shady, suspect, suspicious), překazit (baffle, confound, set back, thwart, upset), homosexuální (gay, homosexual), bizarní (bizarre, fanciful, fantastic, freak, outlandish, weird). (various references)

Farsi 

مختل کردن (Disarrange, Disorder, Disorganize, Hamper, Unhinge, Violate), گرفتارشدن (Involve), غیرعادی (Abnormal, Anomalous, Extraordinary, Irregular, Prodigious, Unco, Uncommon, Unusual, Unwonted, Utter), عجیب وغریب (Exotic, Odd, Oddball, Outlandish, Peculiar, Quizzical, Rum, Screwy, Unearthly), خنده دار (Comic, Gig, Hilarious, Laughable, Ridiculous, Waggish), خل (Crackpot, Halfbaked, Light, Nut, Offbeat, Screwy). (various references)

Finnish

oudonnäköinen (odd, of an unusual appearance), omituinen (extraordinary, odd, strange), kummallinen (curious, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange), eriskummallinen (bizarre, curious, extraordinary, odd, peculiar, strange). (various references)

French

suspect, singulier (quaint), patraque, pédéraste, pédé, mordu, louche (questionable), lesbienne, homosexuel, gouine, gâter, drôle, bizarre (quaint), abîmer (quash), étrange (quaint). (various references)

German

seltsam (bizarre, curious, curiously, extraordinary, fancy, foreign, interesting, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queerly, strange, strangely, unaccountable, weird, whimsical), sonderbar (curious, extraordinary, funny, mysteriously, odd, oddly, outlandish, outlandishly, peculiar, singular, singularly, spooky, strange, strangely, unaccountable, weirdly). (various references)

Greek 

κωλομπαράς (puff), ύποπτοσ (suspect, suspicious), παράξενοσ (bizarre, codger, crotchety, curious, eerie, freakish, funny, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, quizzical, rum, strange), παράξενος (odd, out of place, peculiar, quaint, strange), αλλόκοτοσ (bizarre, eerie, grotesque, nondescript, odd, quaint, weird), αλλόκοτος (grotesque, uncanny, weird), αδιάθετοσ (indisposed, sickish, unwell), αδερφή (sister). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוזר (curious, peculiar, quaint, strange), משו� �" (anomalous, eccentric, freak, odd, quaint, strange, weird), לשבש (cripple, derange, dislocate, disrupt, muddle, upset), �"ומוסקסואלי (fairy, gay, homosexual). (various references)

Hungarian

gyanús (bung, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, liable to suspicion, shady, suspect, suspicion, suspicious, to give rise to suspicion). (various references)

Indonesian

merusakkan (deface, deleterious, desolate, destroy, foozie, wreck), homoseks (homosexual, lesbian), ganjil (abnormal, odd, peculiar, uneven), aneh (abnormal, irregular, mysterious, odd, oddly, peculiar, strange, unnatural, unusual). (various references)

Irish

aisteach. (various references)

Italian

strano (astonishing, funny, nondescript, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, quaint, singular, strange, surprising, unusual, weird, zany), omosessuale (bent, gay, homosexual). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

珍妙 (fantastic, odd), 奇妙 (curious, strange). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おつ (chic, quaint, romantic, spicy, strange, stylish, tasty, witty), きたい (anticipation, curious, danger, distress, expectation, fuselage, gas, hope, jeopardy, rare, strange, strange or odd posture or figure, uncommon, vapour), きみょう (curious, strange), いっぷうかわった (eccentric, original, peculiar, singular, unconventional), いよう (bizarre, dignity, eccentric, majestic appearance, medical use, odd, strange), へ�" (area, biased, book, change, compilation, completed poem, disturbance, eccentric, editing, flat, funny, incident, inclining, inclining toward, left radical of a character, odd, part of book, peculiar, side, strange, suspicious-looking, vicinity), ち�"みょう (fantastic, odd). (various references)

Korean 

이상한 (Abnormal). (various references)

Manx

soailtagh (effeminate, effeminate man, puff, sissy), quaaie (psychic, psychical, strange). (various references)

Norwegian

rar (odd, peculiar, strange), merkelig (extraordinary, noteworthy, remarkable), homofil. (various references)

Pig Latin

eerquay.(various references)

Portuguese

transformar (convert, make into, metamorphose, process, reduce, remake, remodel, ruffle, transform, translate, transmute, turn, turn into), suspeito (doubtful, equivocal, fishy, questionable, shady, spotted, suspect, suspicious), singular (curious, interesting, novel, odd, particular, peculiar, quaint, remarkable, rum, single, singular, special, strange), prejudicar (bane, crack, damage, damnify, disserve, encroach, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, inhibit, injure, jeopard, jeopardize, pocket, prejudice, prevent, scathe, spoil, upset), original (document, manuscript, new, novel, origin, original, primal, primary, primordial, progenitor, unconventional, unhackneyed, unique), indispor (alienate, disenable, disincline, indispose, untune), fora do vulgar (remarkable), excêntrico (barmy, bizarre, cam, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, kinky, lunatic, madcap, odd, oddball, peculiar, potty, quaint, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, wacky, weird, whimsical, wiper, wobbler), estranho (alien, awkward, curious, eerie, eery, extraneous, foreign, kinky, mysterious, novel, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, quaint, rum, strange, unaccountable, uncanny, unco, unfamiliar, unknown, way-out, weird), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, rub, screw up, spoil), esquisito (antic, bizarre, fastidious, freak, funny, odd, peculiar, rum, strange, weird), escangalhar, dinheiro falso. (various references)

Romanian

homosexual (faggot, gay, homo, homosexual, Nancy, paederast, pansy, pederast, sissy), abţiguit, ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild), beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight, tipsy), bizar (bizarre, droll, extravagant, fancy, quaint, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, whimsical), cherchelit (boozy, elevated, fuddled, in liquor, jolly, mixed, moony, on the fuddle, the worse for liquor, tipsy), ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), curios (agog, curiosity-monger, curious, inquisitive, meddler, odd, particular, paul pry, peculiar, prying, quidnunc, rare, rum, strange, uncommon), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize), homo (fag), uşor bolnav (indisposed, upset), indispus (ailing, distempered, hipped, in a pet, indisposed, Moody, out of order, out of temper, poorly, seedy, unwell, upset), original (air hole, archetype, authentic, creative, eccentric, first hand, genuine, odd, original, originally, peculiar, real, true, unique), pederast (paederast, pederast, sodomite), slãbit (effete, flabby, helpless, loose, low, weakened), straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, weird, whimsical), suspect (doubtful, doubtful person, dubious, equivocal, fishy, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious, suspiciously), trãsnit (afflicted, cracked, crackpot, dumbfounded, oddball, thunder-struck), excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, odd, oddity, original, tappet). (various references)

Russian 

странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, freaky, funny, kinky, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, rummy, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), сомнительный (backhanded, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, indeterminate, questionable, suspicious, uncertain), гомосексуальный (gay, homosexual), гомосексуалист (fairy, gay, homo, homosexual, invert, poofter, sodomite, urning), необычный (exceptional, extraordinary, king size, left-field, odd, off-beat, one-of-a-kind, out of the ordinary, out of the way, paradoxical, quaint, superordinary, unaccustomed, uncommon, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual), надувать (bamboozle, chisel, codfish, cozen, distend, finagle, fob, inflate, jockey, stiffed, stiffs, swell), пьяный (blind drunk, blotto, boozy, drunken, foxed, high, in drink, in wine, inebriate, lush, pickled, pissed, pixilated, plastered, screwed, sewed up, soused, sozzled, squiffed, tanked, wet, woozy), портить (boggle, contaminate, corrupt, do damage, mung, munge, spoil, tamper, thrash, vitiate, waste, welk), подозрительный (distrustful, leery, questionable, screwy, suspect, suspicious, umbrageous, wary), поддельный (bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, factitious, forged, imitative, mock, phoney, pinchbeck, pretended, shoddy, spurious, supposititious, tin, unreal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, mar, sophisticate, spoil, strip, taint, tamper), osujetiti (foil, frustrate, mar, prevent, set back, thwart), nastran (crotchety, cussed, extravagant, kinky, oddish, screwy, wrongheaded), homoseksualan (homosexual), homoseksualac (fag, fairy, gay, homosexual, pansy, queen), čudan (eccentric, flaky, funny, miraculous, odd, oddish, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, strange, unco, way out, weird, wondrous), ćaknut (batty, cracked, crackers, harebrained, moonstruck, soft, soft-headed, touched, wacky, whacky). (various references)

Spanish

original (aboriginal, creative, first, inventive, manuscript, master copy, novel, odd, oddity, origin, original, primal, prime, pristine, quaint, quiz, singular), moneda falsa (bad coin, base coin, brummagem, counterfeit coin, false coin), misterioso (dark, eerie, eery, eldritch, inscrutable, intriguing, lurid, mysterious, occult, odd, oracular, puzzling, shrouded in mystery, spooky, subtil, subtile, subtle, uncanny, weird), maricón (fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, Nance, poof), indispuesto (dog-sick, indisposed, off color, off colour, under the weather, unfit, unwell), extraño (alien, bizarre, dago, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon, weird), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

underlig (curious, erratic, freakish, funny, funny-looking, odd, oddish, peculiar, rum, strange, weird), egen (odd, one's own, own, peculiar, quaint, strange), besynnerlig (curious, mysterious, odd, oddish, peculiar, strange). (various references)

Thai

แปลกประหลา�" (rum), เกย์ (bender, bum bandit, gay), น่าสงสัย (doubting, fishy, ropey, sceptical, shady, suspect, suspicious), ที่ชอบเพศเ�"ียวกัน, กะเทย. (various references)

Turkish

kalp para (counterfeit, false money), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird), antika (antiquarian, antique, crusted, curio, curiosity, eccentric, kooky, old world, quaint), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), eşcinsel (camp, gay, homo, homoerotic, homosexual, invert, inverted), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), homoseksüel (camp, fruit, gay, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, invert, pederast, poof, queen, sod, sodomite, swish), ibne (catamite, fag, faggot, fagot, fruit, sod, swish), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched), kalp (base, bogus, counterfeit, false, forged, heart, mock, phoney, phony, spurious), tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), keyifsiz (ailing, blue, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, doleful, down, humorless, humourless, in the doldrums, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, poor spirited, poorly, seedy, sick, under the weather, unwell), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), midesi bozulmuş, nonoş (darling, fairy, fruit, gay, poof, pouf, pouffe, queen), rahatsız (ailing, bad, comfortless, constrained, diseased, disturbed, ill, in bad health, incommodious, indisposed, out of sorts, poorly, seedy, sick, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, unwell, worrisome), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), sahte para (base coin, counterfeit coin, plug, stiff, stumer), sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky). (various references)

Ukrainian

сумнівний (apocryphal, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, indeterminate, naughty, off color, off colour, precarious, problematic, problematical, risky, shady, uncertain), фальшиві гроші (boodle), фальшивий (bad, base, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, double-minded, faked, false, falsified, feigned, flash, off-key, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plugged, pseudo, sheeny, wrong), гомосексуаліст (homosexual, pansy, sodomite), обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, sell short), ексцентричний (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastic, fantastical, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, outre, wacky, whacky, whimsical), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, spoil, vitiate, waste), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lạ lùng (astonishing, outlandish, stupendous, wondrous), khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), kỳ quặc khả nghi, đáng ngờ khó ở. (various references)

Welsh

rhyfedd (bizarre, funny, humorous, odd, strange, wonderful). (various references)

twerh. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "queer": queered, queerer, queerest, queering, queerish, queerly, queerness, queernesses, queers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Queer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: euere, qeer, qeue, quaa, quader, quae, quaeh, quaer, Quaere, quager, quahr, qualer, quare, quayer, quazer, quea, quead, queam, queap, quear, quearn, queary, queat, queaz, quebe, Quebra, quece, quede, quee, queeb, queec, queed, queef, Queeg, queek, Queel, queem, queep, queere, queert, queery, quees, queet, queev, queex, queey, queez, quef, quefe, quege, quei, queid, queir, Queira, queje, quepe, quer, querd, quere, querel, querer, querey, queri, querm, Quero, querp, querr, querw, quese, queur, queve, quewe, quewer, queye, queze, quiar, quider, quiea, quieb, quied, quief, quiel, quiem, quier, quiero, Quiery, quiev, quiex, quiey, quifer, quiger, quiner, qule, quoe, quoer, quoir, quore, quree, quse, quy, qyeer, squear, uqea. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ere, ree, rue.

-3 letters: er, re.

+1 letter: quaere, queers, queuer.

+2 letters: chequer, enquire, equerry, esquire, marquee, perique, prequel, quaeres, queered, queerer, queerly, queller, queried, querier, queries, quester, queuers, quieter, reequip, relique, request, requiem, require, requite.

+3 letters: barbeque, chequers, enquired, enquires, equipper, esquired, esquires, frequent, marquees, moresque, periques, prequels, quavered, quaverer, queasier, queazier, queerest, queering, queerish, quellers, quencher, quercine, queriers, questers, quieters, quivered, quiverer, reequips, reliques, remarque, requests, requiems, required, requirer, requires, requited, requiter, requites, roqueted, squeaker, squealer, squeezer, squireen.