It air a queery lookin' plant, appearin' more like a church steeple than a tree. 1866, Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas, page 102:
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queery en · NOUN
Etymology
From queer + -y.
Meanings
(derogatory, slang) A homosexual.
A boy was sitting by himself, and all the other schoolboys were jolly and happy and suddenly one of them said: 'Ugh, don't sit beside him. He's a queery. He's a queery.' 2006, Ben Summerskill, The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century, page 132: