different between oddly vs queerly

English

Etymology

From Middle English odly, oddely, equivalent to odd +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??dli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??dli/
• Rhymes: -?dli

Adverb

oddly (not comparable)

1. In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

   For December, it was oddly warm.

   Synonyms: queerly, curiously

2. In a manner measured by an odd number.
   • 1998, Kay Almere Read, Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (page 107)

     The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.

English

Etymology

queer +? -ly

Adverb

queerly (comparative more queerly, superlative most queerly)

1. (dated) In a queer (strange) manner.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 118):

     Little Sea grumbled in her sleep, while Desire, with wide-open, faunlike eyes, stared queerly at me.

   Synonyms: eccentrically, unconventionally, oddly

2. (uncommon) In a queer way (a way not conforming to conventional heterosexual norms), or in a way consistent with queer theory.
   • 2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: K-Z (?ISBN), page 680:

     Queer Pedagogy

     Kevin C. Franck

     Queer pedagogy is less concerned with integrating gay and lesbian content [... and is rather] an attempt to destabilize pedagogical practice and to develop guidelines for teaching and learning queerly.