quare

British  

/ kwɛə /

adjective

1. remarkable or strange

   a quare fellow

2. great or good

   you're in a quare mess

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Etymology

Origin of quare

probably variant of _queer

Example Sentences

Interrogatus quare ergo reddebat dictam cedulam ex quo sciebat eam contiuere falsitatem, respondit quod propter suum malum et suam ruinam et quod volebat quod propter illa ipse Raimundus Berseti haberet inde malum et dampnum.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

It was a quare ship, boys, with a one-eyed captain and a one-legged crew.

From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Stables, Gordon

I seen a mighty quare thing coming towards me between the sintry-box and the hospital; it was all surrounded wid blue lights, and was like a big dog with a man’s head.

From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by Drayson, A.W.

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

Quod nolis, alibi quaras; hic quare quod optas: Aut hic, aut nusquam, vincre vota potes.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von