queer

• adj.奇妙な；同性愛の；不快な；精神的にアンバランスな
• vt.めちゃくちゃにする；不利にする
• n. 同性愛者；変人；偽札

ドイツ語のquer、奇妙な、倒錯した、から、PIE*terkw、曲げる、回す、語源的にはturn、torqueと同じ。比喩的用法、queerの語源。t, qの音変化、quarter, tetragramと比較。

queer

queer: [16] Queer was probably borrowed from German quer ‘across, oblique’, hence ‘perverse’. This went back to a prehistoric Indo- European *twerk-, which also produced English thwart and Latin torquēre ‘twist’ (source of English torch, torture, etc).
=> thwart, torch, torment, tort, torture

queer (adj.)

c. 1500, "strange, peculiar, eccentric," from Scottish, perhaps from Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer "oblique, off-center," related to German quer "oblique, perverse, odd," from Old High German twerh "oblique," from PIE root *terkw- "to turn, twist, wind" (see thwart (adv.)).

Sense of "homosexual" first recorded 1922; the noun in this sense is 1935, from the adjective. Related: Queerly. Queer studies as an academic discipline attested from 1994.

queer (v.)

"to spoil, ruin," 1812, from queer (adj.). Related: Queered; queering. Earlier it meant "to puzzle, ridicule, cheat" (1790). To queer the pitch (1846) is in reference to the patter of an itinerant tradesman or showman (see pitch (n.1)).

These wanderers, and those who are still seen occasionally in the back streets of the metropolis, are said to 'go a-pitching ;' the spot they select for their performance is their 'pitch,' and any interruption of their feats, such as an accident, or the interference of a policeman, is said to 'queer the pitch,'--in other words, to spoil it. [Thomas Frost, "Circus Life and Circus Celebrities," London, 1875]

1. " Queer " is the word often used euphemistically for " mad ".

「 Queer 」という言葉は、「mad」の婉曲語としてよく使われています。

2.I could not help but think this a very queer life.

とても奇妙な生活だと思わずにはいられない。

3.His face was a queer pink colour.

彼は奇妙なピンク色をしていた。

4.What a queer story！

なんと不思議な物語だろう！

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5.I heard some queer footsteps.

不審な足音が聞こえた。