Queer vs Poofter - What's the difference?
queer | poofter |
(now, slightly, dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
* (Washington Irving)
* 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
* , chapter=5
, title= (slightly, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in'' ''to feel queer ).
* , chapter=5
, title= (colloquial) Homosexual.
More broadly: pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual standards, assumptions etc.
*1999 , (Judith Butler), Gender Trouble , Routledge 2002, Preface to 1999 edition:
*:If gender is no longer to be understood as consolidated through normative sexuality, then is there a crisis of gender that is specific to queer contexts?
(colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
(colloquial) A person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity.
(colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare (gay).
Counterfeit money.
* 1913 , edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 133:
To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 78:
To reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
* 2003 , Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God (page 9)
* 2006 , Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern (page 80)
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, pejorative, slang) A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one; a pansy.
* 1943 , John Bostock and Evan Jones, The nervous soldier: a handbook for the prevention, detection and treatment of nervous invalidity in war ,
* 1964 , Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice ,
* 2007 , John Mendoza, Mad Blue Smoke , Pasini Press, Melbourne, Australia,
As nouns the difference between queer and poofter
is that queer is (colloquial) a person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities while poofter is (uk|australia|new zealand|south africa|pejorative|slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one; a pansy.As an adjective queer
is (now|slightly|dated) weird, odd or different; whimsical.As a verb queer
is to render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.As an adverb queer
is queerly.queer
English
(wikipedia queer)Adjective
(er)- “I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer' thing, to be sure! However, everything is ' queer to-day.”
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. … When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer , I suppose.}}
Synonyms
* See also those of strange.Derived terms
* queercore * queer fish * queerplatonic * queerish * queerly * queerness * queer theoryNoun
(en noun)- You're shoving the queer .
Usage notes
* The use of this word to mean "homosexual" was formerly, and is often still, considered pejorative. However, in the way that all language is dynamic and pliable, the word is also sometimes now used (primarily as adjective) as a neutral or even positive descriptive term, including by some (primarily younger) homosexuals. In its pejorative use, it is applied usually to males. In its modern neutral use, it is applied to all genders. * Some LGBT individuals now use the term as an all-inclusive term for the GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersex, Queer) etc. community. This may include people who consider themselves to be politically (or otherwise sociologically) GLBTIQ without necessarily displaying, or even simply inclined towards behavior that is not heteronormative. This new usage is again by primarily younger people. * 'Queer' is also used as a positive term for people, some of whom reject mainstream-gay values and culture as exclusive and limiting. People who identify with this version of queer distance themselves from the commercialisation and (relatively) conformist values of the gay mainstream and embrace fluid and unconstrained definitions of sexuality and gender. There is some common ground between this definition of queer and the punk and DIY scenes. See also "genderqueer". * In the English dialect of the southern United States, the two senses of the adjective queer'' (''homosexual'' and ''weird, odd, different, or unwell'') are sometimes distinguished by pronunciation. Queer (''homosexual'') is pronounced (kwîr), queer (''weird, odd, different, or unwell'') is pronounced (kwär). This is generally considered old-fashioned and is only used when the word is emphasized, as in the phrase "''that's awful queer " (pronounced TH?ts ôr'f?l kwär). The distinction is dying out as that latter sense of the word dies out.Hypernyms
* LGBTQDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.
- If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian.
- Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.
Synonyms
* invalidatepoofter
English
Alternative forms
* poofta * pooftahNoun
(en noun)page 11,
- Hallucinations, again, are the expression of repressed systems of ideas and desires; for example a man who has strong repressed homo-sexual tendencies may hear voices calling him a poofter .
page 36,
- "You pommy poofter'. You give me any more of that liberal crap and I'll have your balls for a bow tie." Bond said mildly, "What's a ' poofter ?" "What you'd call a pansy. No," Dikko Henderson got to his feet and fired a string of what sounded like lucid Japanese at the man behind the bar,.
page 113,
- I just ignored them because I didn't think what I did made me a poofter'. Me and Dwayne were best friends, and it was only because there were no girls around, and I liked it. My father taught me that homosexuality was unnatural, and that ' poofters were men who couldn't form relationships with women because they were horrifying, repulsive queers.
