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| Käännös | Konteksti | Ääninäyte |
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| Adjektiivit |
| 1. | | puhekieli, slangi, halventava | |
| 2. | | puhekieli | |
| 3. | | puhekieli | |
| 4. | | vanhahtava | |
| 5. | | | |
| 6. | | vanhahtava | |
| Substantiivit |
| 7. | | puhekieli | |
| Verbit |
| 8. | | | |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- (now, slightly, dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
- (slightly, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
- (colloquial) Homosexual.
- More broadly: pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual standards, assumptions etc.
Substantiivit
- (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
- (colloquial) A person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity.
- (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare gay.
- (definite, the queer, informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
Verbit
- (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
- To reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
Adverbit
- queerly
Esimerkit
- “I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.”
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] 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.
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. … 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.
- If gender is no longer to be understood as consolidated through normative sexuality, then is there a crisis of gender that is specific to queer contexts?
- You're shoving the queer.
- I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.
- If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian.
- Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.
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