It’s kind of an old-timey usage. Comes up a lot in Lord of the Rings.
“Gay” in this context is also old-timey.
But a cigarette is still a “fag” to a lot of people. Interestingly uncomfortable for me to even type out even though I grew up with that being a totally normal word!
I know gay and fag mean happy and cigarette, but didn’t know that queer was used to mean unusual (like I know it can be defined as that, but didn’t think anyone used it like that.)
Really that’s how they use queer?
It’s kind of an old-timey usage. Comes up a lot in Lord of the Rings.
“Gay” in this context is also old-timey.
But a cigarette is still a “fag” to a lot of people. Interestingly uncomfortable for me to even type out even though I grew up with that being a totally normal word!
I know gay and fag mean happy and cigarette, but didn’t know that queer was used to mean unusual (like I know it can be defined as that, but didn’t think anyone used it like that.)
There may be a historical ink between the two meanings.