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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From queer (verb) + -er.
Noun
queerer (plural queerers)
- (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
From queer (adjective) + -er.
Adjective
queerer
- 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, 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.