q-word
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Alternative letter-case form of Q-word (“(linguistics) question word”).
— […] was derived through morphological means. This is the situation in languages in which the indefinite marker seems to have been derived from the q-word. In other languages the q-word was morphologically derived from the indefinite word.
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The word queer.
— Last semester, I noticed that students in my Introduction to Queer Studies course (Queer Theory/Queer Lives) were just as interested in the b-word (bisexuality) as the q-word (queer). They perked up when I made references to the history of bisexual movements, and by the end of the semester they began to draw interesting connections between "bi" and "queer."
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The word quiet, taken as a bad omen that once uttered the workplace will suddenly become exceptionally busy.
— Even among Western doctors and surgeons, there is a widely held superstition about the q'''-word - 'quiet' - which should never be spoken during a hospital shift.
- Any word beginning with q, especially one that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
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