quare
Britishadjective
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remarkable or strange
a quare fellow
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great or good
you're in a quare mess
Etymology
Origin of quare
probably variant of queer
Example Sentences
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This Southern climate's quare, Biddy, A quare and bastely thing, Wid Winter absint all the year, And Summer in the Spring.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Our dislikes to individuals are often as unaccountable, when we are obliged to confess with the poet Martial: Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantùm possum dicere, Non amo te.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
But by the Common Law Procedure Act 1860, no quare impedit can be brought, so that an action in the king’s bench of the High Court was substituted for it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
I like your face, and I'm a quare body.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
She found him out in many quare things, widout doubt; but whether it was owin' to that or not, I wouldn't undertake to say for fraid I'd tell a lie.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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