queerer

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From queer (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

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queerer (plural queerers)

  1. (rare) One who queers something.
    • 1967, Syed Mohammad Naqavi, Democracy in India:
      The large crop of independents, emerging, at all events, as queerers of the democratic pitch, are evidence of the deeper cuts []
    • 2015, Jeff Hood, The Courage to Be Queer, page 81:
      The people spoke and grew queerer “as the Spirit gave them ability” (Acts 2:4). God is the Queer doing the queering. God is the one pulling the tongues out of the people. God is the great queerer of every moment.

Etymology 2

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From queer (adjective) +‎ -er.

Adjective

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queerer

  1. comparative form of queer: more queer.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
    • 1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You Can't Judge a Boy by Her Lover)”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions[1], Binghamton: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 186:
      I know that my life is different since I'm a bisexual, a butch, and a pervert. [] And even when I found a queer community, I discovered I was queerer than I thought.