q-word
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See also: Q-word
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative letter-case form of Q-word (“(linguistics) question word”).
- 1985, The Journal of West African Languages:
- […] 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.
- 2000, Maria Soukka, A descriptive grammar of Noon: a Cangin language of Senegal:
- The q-word questions ask for information about that element only which is replaced by the question word. The position of the q-word is in situ of the element it replaces, except when replacing a subject.
- The word queer.
- 2005, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Agatha Beins, Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
- 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."
- Any word beginning with q, especially one that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.