queerdo

English

Etymology

Blend of queer +‎ weirdo

Noun

queerdo (plural queerdos)

1. (US, slang) A particularly strange LGBTQ+ person.
   • 1985, “[Untitled]”, in Lake Forest College Yearbook‎^[1], page 143:

     I don't look like Indhira Ghandi yet. / Dummy-heado, stupid queerdo. / Holden, Howard and No Hands.

   • 2005 October 19, Laurie Koh [complier], “Events Listings”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian‎^[2], page 81:

     A club for queerdos and weirdos featuring electro, indie, R&B, '80s, hip-hop, punk, and more.

   • 2020 February 14, Beth Sullivan, “Qmmunity”, in The Austin Chronicle‎^[3], page 60:

     […] and a burning urge to write something. Anything — it just needed to be queer. Why? Because this l'il queerdo had been a longtime Gay Place reader […]

Hyponyms

• See Thesaurus:homosexual person

Further reading

• queerdo, The Rice University Neologisms Database
• queerdo, Roger's Profanisaurus Das Krapital