English Dictionary

queer

IPA（発音記号）

/kwiːɹ/

動詞

古風 他動詞 イギリス英語 方言 俗語 新語

(transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null. / (UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle. / (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.

日本語の意味

（過渡的かつ時代的な用法）取り組みや合意の効力を失わせる、または無効化する / （英国方言の古い用法）誰かを混乱させる、戸惑わせる / （スラングの古い用法）あざける、からかう、冗談半分に嘲る

Their sudden demands queer the entire deal.

彼らの突然の要求は取引全体を無効にする。

意味（1）

(transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.

I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.

意味（2）

(UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.

But lor-a-mussy, Jacob, how could a woman get away from here with all her boxes in the middle of the night? That's what queered me, and Spink slowly shook his head, and queered a good many; for of course it got newsed about […]

意味（3）

(slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.

意味（4）

(slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.

Food is what queered the party. We ordered a big supper to be sent up to the room about two o'clock. Alec didn't give the waiter a tip, so I guess the little bastard snitched.

意味（5）

(social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

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.

意味（6）

(slang, LGBT, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.

queers （ present singular third-person ）

queering （ participle present ）

queered （ participle past ）

queered （ past ）