Queerer

adj, noun

adj, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who queers something. rare

    "The large crop of independents, emerging, at all events, as queerers of the democratic pitch, are evidence of the deeper cuts […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of queer: more queer. comparative, form-of

    "When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies."

Synonyms

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funnyhomophilevitiateaberrantabnormalabnormal

Example

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"Day by day she grew queerer and more irritable, and we had ceaseless rows about nothing."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From queer (verb) + -er.

Etymology 2

From queer (adjective) + -er.

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