Saturday, October 16, 2004

Today's OED antedating: "queer"

Queer, slang, usually offensive, homosexual (n.2, first use cited 1932): Poem titled "From a Letter From Lesbia," by Dorothy Parker, New Yorker, December 14, 1929, p 27, col 2: "Take any lover that you will, or may,/Except a poet. All of them are queer."