queery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Colloquial; Dated

noun

Derogatory; Slang

"It air a queery lookin' plant, appearin' more like a church steeple than a tree."
"A boy was sitting by himself, and all the other schoolboys were jolly and happy and suddenly one of them said: 'Ugh, don't sit beside him. He's a queery. He's a queery.'"

From queer + -y.

more queery (comparative) most queery (superlative) queerie (alternative) queeries (plural)

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