Etymograph

English

queerdo

Blend of queer + weirdo.

A blend of queer + weirdo

Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz ‘cross, adverse’

Proto-West Germanic *þwerh ‘transverse, crooked’

Old Saxon thwerh ‘bent, crooked’

English queer

Today it means

noun A particularly strange LGBTQ+ person.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / queerdo