irony vs queer

irony

adj
  • The food had an irony taste to it. 

  • Of or pertaining to the metal iron. 

noun
  • Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. 

  • Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play. 

  • Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 

  • The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. 

  • An ironic statement. 

queer

adj
  • Weird, odd, or different; whimsical. 

  • 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. 

  • Drunk. 

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. 

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. 

adv
  • Queerly. 

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