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tenderqueers

tenderqueers is the plural of tenderqueer.

Meaning of tenderqueer

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

Questions about tenderqueers

What is tenderqueers the plural of?
Tenderqueers is the plural of tenderqueer.

Words near tenderqueers in the dictionary

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

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