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queer as Dick's hatband

queer as Dick's hatband adjective: very queer: very unusual or strange.

Adjective

queer as Dick's hatband (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, dated) Very queer: very unusual or strange.
    • A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band.1742, James Ayres, Sancho at Court, act III, line 44
    Synonyms:
    strange

Synonyms of queer as Dick's hatband

Origin of queer as Dick's hatband

A variant (the earliest attested and formerly most common) of the phrase Dick's hatband

Words formed from queer as Dick's hatband

  • as queer as Dick's hatband

Questions about queer as Dick's hatband

What does queer as Dick's hatband mean?
Queer as Dick's hatband means very queer: very unusual or strange.
What part of speech is queer as Dick's hatband?
Queer as Dick's hatband is an adjective.

Words near queer as Dick's hatband in the dictionary

  1. queer as a clockwork orange
  2. queer as a coot
  3. queer as a nine bob note
  4. queer as a three dollar bill
  5. queer as a three-dollar bill
  6. queer as Dick's hatband
  7. queer baiting
  8. queer basher
  9. queer bashing
  10. queer bashings
  11. queer cuffin

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