de-queering
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In other words, the de-queering of Shakespeare suggests that a queer Shakespeare may be lurking uneasily beneath the surface."
- "Finally, Auerbach's attention to the transformation of vampire narratives into more conventionally heterosexual stories, a "de-queering" of sorts, is reminiscent of what I shall call re-queerings that take place in BtVS."
- "As Sophie Lewis describes in her article "Can the Sireniform Speak?," the de-queering and de-sexualizing of octopus villain Ursula in The Little Mermaid (2023) takes away what pleasures and queer imaginations were present in the original, while the girlbossification of Ariel and the post-racial casting only deepens the colonial clash-of-cultures fantasy at the heart of the mermaid tale."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
de-queerings (plural)
dequeering (alternative)