queer

hintti-, homoseksuaalinen

kumma

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hintti puhekieltä weird Weird, odd or different; whimsical. (defdate)
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1865, (w), (w)

“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.”

One thing has struck me as a bit queer. During my two terms of office the whole Democratic press, and the morbidly honest and 'reformatory' portion of the Republican press, thought it horrible to keep U.S. troops stationed in the Southern States, and when they were called upon to protect the lives of negroes–as much citizens under the Constitution as if their skins were white–the country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of the government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens.

It looked queer to me to see boxes labeled "His Excellency, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America." The packages so labeled contained Bass ale or Cognac brandy, which cost "His Excellency" less than we Yankees had to pay for it. Think of the President drinking imported liquors while his soldiers were living on pop-corn and water!

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.

"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 (..)"

"Where do you come from?" Stanley queered.

"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."

Well, then I got buried—shell dropped, and the dug-out caved in—and that queered me. They sent me home.

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.