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What is the adjective for queerhood?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs queer and queerize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

queer
  1. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical. [from 16th c.]
  2. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer). [from 18th c.]
  3. (colloquial) Homosexual. [from 20th c.]
  4. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
  5. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual norms, assumptions etc. [from 20th c.]
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “It was a queer remark, medieval in its construction, but searing in its heat.”
      “By which time, although no longer feeling faint, I was still feeling rather queer and decided to go home.”
      “Thus, for instance, he seemed rather queer on the subject of astrology!”
queerious
queersome
  1. Characterised or marked by queerness; peculiar; odd
  2. Examples:
    1. “Then we would rise to see his eyes crooked with a queersome madness and his fingers still aflitter.”
queerphobic
  1. Having a fear or hatred of queer people.
queerish
  1. Somewhat queer.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Mary's outfit was quite queerish, with mismatched patterns and unexpected color combinations.”
      “We've fratched, but I reckon I've had a queerish sort of liking for ye all along.”
      “I expect to have an interesting time and penetrate into queerish places.”
queerest
  1. superlative form of queer: most queer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She seized upon Athanase, and began to lecture him with the queerest platitudes about royalist politics and religious morality.”
      “Is The Imitation Game the queerest thing to hit multiplexes for years?”
      “But the queerest part is that those fellows seemed to have some idea the man was hidden aboard here.”
queered
queering
queerized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of queerize
queerizing
  1. present participle of queerize
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