Queerness: alternatives and connections

The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

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The crime against nature; sodomy.

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The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

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A forked support; a crotch.

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Gayety; finery.

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The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

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A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

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