[Ads-l] queer, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Strange or peculiar fellow":

1868 _Henry De Marsan's New Comic and Sentimental Singer's Journal_  II
(No. 160) 474: Solomon Isaac Musketeers. Written and Sung by Dave
Howard....Just look at us Hebrew soldiers now./...The people shout and
holler out we are queers.../ Since we've joined the Solomon Isaac
Musketeers."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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