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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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
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 Wingfield, Lewis
In a case of quare impedit, in the year-book, 34 H. 6, fo.
From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Hetherington, Henry
He was fain to console himself with the rather mortifying reflection that “the Quins knew well enough she did be apt to take up with quare nonsensical fantigues, that nobody minded.”
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
“The three legs of it look mighty quare, stickin’ up,” says she.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
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