queerer

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɹə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

queer (verb) +‎ -er

Noun

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

queer (adjective) +‎ -er

Adjective

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.