quare

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adjective

Queer, strange.

“He'd brought a quare amount of money with him.”

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Meanings

adjectivequare (comparative quarer, superlative quarest)

comparative quarer · superlative quarest

  1. AppalachiaIrelanddatedOttawa ValleyQueer, strange.

    I was after finishing my dinner when there was quare knock on the door.

    1 more example

    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. IrelandA lot of, very, great.

    He'd brought a quare amount of money with him.

Origin

Variant of queer.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Raque
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APA

quare. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quare

MLA

“quare.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quare. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quare,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quare.

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