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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Well, well, I'll say nothin' for it, only that it's quare!
From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
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
It's a quare world, isn't it, Miss Wolfe?'
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
And it’s the quare trouble you might very aisy get yourself into for that same, let me tell you.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
But isn’t it powerful quare o’ Hannah to keep us sittin’ here so long in our bonnets an’ shawls, an’ us dreepin’ wi’ the heat?’
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
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