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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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
Ye’d better go to bed an’ rist, for ye look quare ’bout the eyes.
From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.
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)
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.
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
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