quare

/ kwɛə /

adjective

1. remarkable or strange

   a quare fellow

2. great or good

   you're in a quare mess

Word History and Origins

Origin of quare¹

probably variant of queer

Example Sentences

Quare Dei omnipotentia actu ab æterno fuit et in æternum in eadem actualitate manebit.

From Project Gutenberg

I feel mighty quare, Mosey,' says he, 'an' I can't describe exactly how I do feel!'

From Project Gutenberg

And he says he'll inthroduce the misthress about, and the misthress is narely as quare!

From Project Gutenberg

An' dear knows it would be quare if you was a Talbot, an' I didn't know you.

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Nostra cert memoria, etiam inquirentibus non contigit invenisse, quare in fabulis habendum.

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