queer vs wry

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. 

adv
  • Queerly. 

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. 

wry

adj
  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

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