queery

English

Etymology

From queer +‎ -y.

Adjective

queery (comparative more queery, superlative most queery)

1. (dated, colloquial, regional) Queer; curious; strange.
   • 1866, Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas, page 102:

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

Alternative forms

• queerie

Noun

queery (plural queeries)

1. (slang, derogatory) A homosexual.
   • 2006, Ben Summerskill, The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century, page 132:

     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.'

Alternative forms

• queerie

Anagrams

• equery