| 词汇 | queer |
| 词源 | queer. The German Quere, “oblique, adverse, perverse, wrongheaded,” may be the source of queer, but the word is of uncertain origin. Queer is first recorded in 1508 with the mean- ing of strange, odd, or eccentric in appearance or character, taking on many other meanings over the years both in standard English and slang. See queen dick. |
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