Queer
[kwɪə] or [kwɪr]
Definition
(verb.) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.
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Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.
(n.) Counterfeit money.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Odd, strange, singular, droll, whimsical, quaint, curious, fantastic, unusual, uncommon, extraordinary, unique.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Odd, whimsical, quaint, cross, strange, crochety, singular, eccentric
ANT:Ordinary, common, usual, familiar, customary
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Definition
adj. odd singular quaint: open to suspicion dubious: counterfeit: having a sensation of coming sickness.—v.t. (slang) to banter ridicule.—adj. Queer′ish somewhat singular.—n. Queer′ity (rare).—adv. Queer′ly.—n. Queer′ness.—Queer Street the imaginary residence of persons in financial and other difficulties.—A queer fish (see Fish); Shove the queer (slang) to pass bad money.
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Examples
- I can't very well do it myself; because my back's so bad, and my legs are so queer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Queer sort of company, too, for a man who has raised himself! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She had her queer, radiant, breathless manner, as if confused by the actual world, unreal to it, having a complete bright world of her self alone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why, I have noticed myself that there is a queer kind of flavour in the place to-night, Mr. Weevle rejoins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Well, I wish I may die if it ain't the queerest thing I ever see! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was the queerest of rooms, fitted and furnished more like a luxurious amateur tap-room than anything else within the ken of Silas Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Well, be damned if this isn't the queerest start ever I know'd, said Mr. Fairway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then she rose up with the queerest expression of victorious mischief glittering in her green eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They told me that you were fond of queer mysteries, and I don't think you can find a queerer one than that. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Egdon Heth is a bad place to get lost in, and the winds do huffle queerer tonight than ever I heard 'em afore. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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