queering

Verb

queer (third-person singular simple present queers, present participle queering, simple past and past participle queered)

1. (dated, transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
   • I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, page 78

   Synonyms:

   invalidate, thwart, compromise

2. (UK, dated, dialectal) To puzzle.
   • "But lor-a-mussy, Jacob, how could a woman get away from here with all her boxes in the middle of the night?"
     "That's what queered me," and Spink slowly shook his head, "and queered a good many; for of course it got newsed about […]"1887, G. W. Appelton, chapter II, in A Terrible Legacy: A Tale of the South Downs, London: Ward and Downey, page 12
3. (dated, slang) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
4. (dated, slang) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
   • "Food is what queered the party. We ordered a big supper to be sent up to the room about two o'clock. Alec didn't give the waiter a tip, so I guess the little bastard snitched."1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Book Two, Chapter IV, pages 270-271
5. To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
   • 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.2003, Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God, page 9

   Synonyms:

   queerify

6. (neologism, slang) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.

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