Difference between Spoil and Queer

What is the difference between Spoil and Queer?

Spoil as a noun is (also in plural: spoils) plunder taken from an enemy or victim. while Queer as a noun is a person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.

Spoil

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil. To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

Example sentence: All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Queer

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (somewhat old-fashioned) weird, odd or different.(somewhat old-fashioned) slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).homosexual.having to do with homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism etc.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.A person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity.General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare .

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: queerly

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.To reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

Example sentence: It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

We hope you now know whether to use Spoil or Queer in your sentence.

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