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If you try to know more about me, maybe you would suffer an information overload. So maybe I don't go clubbing, or watch movies with my friends. I spend my time watching films on Bravo and laughing at the jiggling boobs on the Man Show. I laugh at every detail. I laugh at you. I laugh at everyone. I laugh at myself.
But remember, this blog is only a part of what I am.
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Learn more about me in my Bio
neu·rot·ic
(n-rtk, ny-)
adj.
Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis. No longer in scientific use.
Informal. Overanxious: neurotic about punctuality.
n.
A person suffering
from a neurosis. No longer in scientific use.
Informal. A person prone to excessive anxiety and emotional upset.
lu·na·tic
(ln-tk)
adj.
Suffering from
lunacy; insane.
Of or for the insane.
Wildly or giddily foolish: a lunatic decision.
Characterized by lunacy or eccentricity.
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[Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Latin lnticus, from
lna, moon. See leuk- in Indo-European Roots.]
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luna·tic n.
queer
(kwîr)adj. queer·er, queer·est
- Deviating from the expected or normal; strange: a queer situation.
- Odd or unconventional, as in behavior; eccentric. See Synonyms at strange.
- Of a questionable
nature or character; suspicious.
- Slang. Fake;
counterfeit.
- Feeling slightly
ill; queasy.
- Offensive Slang.
Homosexual.
- Usage Problem. Of or relating to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, or transgendered people.
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n.
Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual person.
Usage Problem. A lesbian, gay male, bisexual, or transgendered person.
tr.v. Slang queered,
queer·ing, queers
To ruin or thwart: “might try to queer the Games with anything from troop
movements... to a bomb attack” (Newsweek).
To put (someone) in a bad position.
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[Perhaps from Low German, oblique, off-center, from Middle Low German dwer.
See terkw- in Indo-European Roots.]
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queerish adj.
queerly adv.
queerness n.
Usage Note: A reclaimed word is a word that was formerly used solely as a
slur but that has been semantically overturned by members of the maligned
group, who use it as a term of defiant pride. Queer is an example of a word
undergoing this process. For decades queer was used solely as a derogatory
adjective for gays and lesbians, but in the 1980s the term began to be used
by gay and lesbian activists as a term of self-identification. Eventually,
it came to be used as an umbrella term that included gay men, lesbians, bisexuals,
and transgendered people. Nevertheless, a sizable percentage of people to
whom this term might apply still hold queer to be a hateful insult, and its
use by heterosexuals is often considered offensive. Similarly, other reclaimed
words are usually offensive to the in-group when used by outsiders, so extreme
caution must be taken concerning their use when one is not a member of the
group.
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