queerer

English

queer +‎ -er

queerer

comparative form of queer: more queer.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

queerer (plural queerers)

(rare) One who queers something.
- 1967, Syed Mohammad Naqavi, Democracy in India
  The large crop of independents, emerging, at all events, as queerers of the democratic pitch, are evidence of the deeper cuts […]
- 2015, Jeff Hood, The Courage to Be Queer (page 81)
  The people spoke and grew queerer “as the Spirit gave them ability” (Acts 2:4). God is the Queer doing the queering. God is the one pulling the tongues out of the people. God is the great queerer of every moment.

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