-adv. 2. seemingly, as it were, apparently; partial
ly, partly, to a certain extent or degree, quaver, v. 1. quiver, vibrate, tremble, shake, shudder, shiver; flicker, flutter, oscillate, fluctuate, vacillate, waver. See quiver (def. 1).
2. trill, twitter, warble, yodel.
-n. 3. quiver, quivering, quavering, vibration, trembling, shaking, shuddering, shivering; flickering, fluttering, vacillating, wavering. See quiver (def. 2).
4. trill, trilling, twitter, twittering, warble, warbling, yodel, yodeling, Music, vibrato, Music, tremolo, quean, n. 1. hussy, SI. broad, brazen woman, Archaic. malapert, jade; shrew, harridan, scold, virago, vixen, termagant, SI. bitch.
2. prostitute, harlot, strumpet, whore; slut, slattern, demirep, cocotte, demimondaine, loose woman, wanton, fallen woman, tramp, vamp, white slave; lady of the evening, woman of the profession, Mrs. Warren, Fr. fille de joie; trollop, Archaic, wench, trull, drab; All SI. tart, hustler, hooker, floozie. See also prostitute (def. 1).
queasy, adj. 1. nauseous, nauseated, sick to one's stomach, sick, ill, indisposed; out of sorts, SI. hung over, Inf. under the weather, qualmish, Inf. woozy, faint, dizzy.
2. nauseating, sickening, disgusting, revolting, repulsive, repellent, SI. gross.
3. uneasy, uncomfortable, conscience-stricken; concerned, worried, anxious, nervous.
4. squeamish, overfastidious, overnice, dainty; overparticular, fussy, finicky, finical.
queen, n. 1. queen consort, queen dowager, queen mother, sultana, infanta; female sovereign or monarch, empress, Hist, princess, czarina, ranee, maharanee, Her Grace or Majesty.
2. movie queen, beauty queen, idol, star; model, paragon, pink, phoenix, ideal, perfection, queer, adj. 1. unconventional, uncommon, unusual, unique, unorthodox, uncustomary, unwonted, rare; atypical, original, singular, exceptional, individual; unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unfamiliar, uncomfortable; odd, curious, peculiar, offbeat, cranky; incongruous, anomalous, irregular, abnormal, deviate, deviant, Inf. funny, SI. rum.
2. quaint, eccentric, droll, comical, fanciful, whimsical, capricious, waggish, SI. balmy, Chiefly Brit, barmy; weird, strange, bizarre, freakish, SI. far out; grotesque, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, preposterous, outlandish, extravagant, fantastic; remarkable, astonishing, extraordinary; exotic, unreal, unnatural, fey, supernatural, preternatural; nondescript, amorphous, indescribable, unclassifiable.
3. suspicious, suspect, questionable, dubious, doubtful, open to doubt, wrong, not right, Inf. shady, SI. fishy; untrustworthy, disreputable, Inf. crooked, Inf. shifty-eyed.
4. giddy, faint, light-headed, dizzy, reeling, vertiginous; qualmish, uneasy; All SI. blitzed, zonked, spaced, ripped, spent, wrecked, wasted, out of it.
5. crazy, mad, insane, demented, deranged, irrational, unbalanced, unhinged, insensate, brainsick, of unsound mind, out of one's mind or head or wits, off one's head, mad as a hatter or March hare, daft, touched, crackbrained, Latin, non compos mentis; crazed, frenzied, frantic, frenetic, wild, delirious, rabid, raving, Inf. cracked, Inf. dotty, Inf. daffy, Inf. haywire, SI. over the top; with bats in one's belfry, with a screw loose, with a few buttons missing, not playing with a full deck, with rooms to let; All SI.