queery

comparative more queery · superlative most queery · alternative queerie

1. colloquialdatedregionalQueer; curious; strange.

   It air a queery lookin' plant, appearin' more like a church steeple than a tree.

   1866, Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas, page 102

plural queeries · alternative queerie

1. derogatoryslangA homosexual.

   A boy was sitting by himself, and all the other schoolboys were jolly and happy and suddenly one of them said: 'Ugh, don't sit beside him. He's a queery. He's a queery.'

   2006, Ben Summerskill, The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century, page 132