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tenderqueer

tenderqueer noun: an LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation.

Noun

tenderqueer (plural tenderqueers)

  1. (derogatory, often, slang) An LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation.
    • Carrying your comfort with you is protection for the sweetly sensitive bull. You're a tenderqueer of few words, and you always make them count.2016, Sally Mulligan, "Turn A Look: Taurus", PQ Monthly, April/May 2016, page 21
    • Sad Boi extraordinaire, reproductive justice fighter and unabashed tenderqueer—Fallon Simard is a rare voice within Indigenous art.2017, Lindsay Nixon, "Fallon Simard – Monetized, But Agential, Bodies in Ghost Worlds", Esse, Number 91, Fall 2017, page 70

Forms of tenderqueer

pluraltenderqueers

Origin of tenderqueer

From tender + queer, as a play on genderqueer.

Questions about tenderqueer

What does tenderqueer mean?
Tenderqueer means an LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation.
What part of speech is tenderqueer?
Tenderqueer is a noun.
What is the plural of tenderqueer?
The plural of tenderqueer is tenderqueers.

Words near tenderqueer in the dictionary

  1. tenderpreneur
  2. tenderpreneurial
  3. tenderpreneurs
  4. tenderpreneurship
  5. tenderpreneurships
  6. tenderqueer
  7. tenderqueers
  8. tenders
  9. tendersful
  10. tendersome
  11. tenderstem

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