crook vs queer

crook

noun
  • A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal. 

  • A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 

  • A pothook. 

  • A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). 

  • A bishop's standard staff of office. 

  • A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. 

  • An artifice; a trick; a contrivance. 

  • A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds. 

  • A bending of the knee; a genuflection. 

adj
  • Ill, sick. 

  • Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. 

  • Annoyed, angry; upset. 

verb
  • To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. 

  • To become bent or hooked. 

  • To bend, or form into a hook. 

queer

noun
  • A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. 

  • A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. 

  • A person of any genderqueer identity. 

adj
  • Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc. 

  • Non-heterosexual or Non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc. 

  • Homosexual. 

  • Weird, odd, or different; whimsical. 

  • Drunk. 

adv
  • Queerly. 

verb
  • To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory. 

  • To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters. 

How often have the words crook and queer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )