q-word

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Q-word (“(linguistics) question word”). alt-of
    — […] 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.
  2. 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."
  3. The word quiet, taken as a bad omen that once uttered the workplace will suddenly become exceptionally busy. humorous
    — 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.
  4. Any word beginning with q, especially one that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.

词形变化

q-words plural Q-word alternative
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