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quare

quare adjective: queer, strange.

Adjective

quare (comparative quarer, superlative quarest)

  1. (Appalachia, Ireland, dated, Ottawa Valley) Queer, strange.
    • I was after finishing my dinner when there was quare knock on the door.
    • Look, the quare fellow’s got to be buried in the morning, whether we like it or not, so cut the mullarkey and get back to work.1956, Brendan Behan, The Quare Fellow, page 60
  2. (Ireland) A lot of, very, great.
    • He'd brought a quare amount of money with him.

Forms of quare

comparativequarer
superlativequarest

Origin of quare

Variant of queer.

Phrases with quare

Questions about quare

What does quare mean?
Quare means queer, strange.
What part of speech is quare?
Quare is an adjective.

Words near quare in the dictionary

  1. quarantinis
  2. quarantinism
  3. quarantinist
  4. quarantinists
  5. quaranty
  6. quare
  7. quare clausum fregit
  8. quare impedit
  9. quare impedits
  10. quarell
  11. quarells

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