queerantine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A quarantine experienced by one or more queer (sexually unconventional) people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Countable; Humorous; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Or, as another user put it in a post that invited members to a WhatsApp chat: “JOIN US IN QUEERANTINE. Self isolation need not be so lonely.”"
- "This is my winged eleganza best costume for today! #goforthegold #billyporterfashionchallenge #theebillyporter #diydiva #queerantine #quarantinebutmakeitfashion"
- "Olly has been hosting weekly Queerantine parties since March. Having started out via Instagram Live, the Saturday club nights have now transferred over to Zoom."
- "The present study aims to address this need through analysing data from the Queerantine study (a portmanteau of queer and quarantine), a web-based survey that assesses how LGBTQ+ adults are experiencing the coronavirus pandemic. In the present paper, we examine extent to which respondents to the Queerantine survey experienced forms of sexuality or gender-based discrimination, including harassment and exclusion, during the coronavirus pandemic."