queer
要点風変りな
意味
- 風変りな,変な
- 気分が悪い,目まいがする
- …をだめにする,失敗させる
- 《軽べつして》同性愛の男
例文
She was getting used to queer things happening.
彼女は妙なことが起こることになれてきた。
Queer rumors about them were in the air.
彼らについての妙な噂が広まっていた。
He had a queer expression on his face.
彼は奇妙な表情を浮かべていた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-centre”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s; see usage notes for more.