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

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Example Sentences

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quare

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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

But he set his ears back, and let a squeal out o’ him, and got on with quare maneuvers whenever Andy Wilson came near him, and Andy—that was King James—he says:

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

In a case of quare impedit, in the year-book, 34 H. 6, fo.

From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington

There's been good and bad harvests since he was young, I'm thinkin'—and it's mighty quare he looks about his eyes, too.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

Now didn't I say I was a quare woman, and you almost a stranger?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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