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▪ I. † quare, v. Obs. rare.
[a. OF. quarer (F. carrer):—L. quadrāre quadrate v.]
To square. Hence quared ppl. a., ˈquaring vbl. n.
a1300Cursor M. 1664 (Gött.) A vessel..sal be mad of quarid tre. 1611MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for hewing and quaring of the tymber.
▪ II. quare, a. dial.|kwɛə(r)|
Also quair.
[repr. dial. pronunc. of queer a.1]
= queer a.1 Also, in Ulster English, used as a general intensifier, esp. in phr. quare and ―, very, extremely. Hence ˈquarely adv.
quare fellow = queer fellow s.v. queer a.1 1 a.
1805E. Cavanagh Let. 20 Aug. in Russ. Jrnls. M. & C. Wilmot (1934) ii. 179 Tis quair things I have been seeing! 1805― Let. 4 Oct. in Ibid. ii. 185 It was quairly made. 1871E. Eggleston Hoosier Schoolmaster iii. 32 ‘What a quare boy Shocky is!’ remarked Betsey Short, with a giggle. ‘He just likes to wander 'round alone.’ 1880W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 81 Quare, Queer, adj. very ‘quare an' nice’ = very nice. 1896J. Barlow Mrs. Martin's Company 13 Sure I know the roof's quare and bad. 1896M. Hamilton Across Ulster Bog xi. 92 You're mended quarely this last while. 1900M. O'Neill Songs of Glens of Antrim 17 Now we're quarely betther fixed. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling vi. 55 Hit's mighty quare you toted a dog along wouldn't be no good to you. 1941[see jist]. 1949C. Graves Ireland Revisited i. 21 One aged groom said: ‘..There's a fine, mettlesome lot of gerrls here today, but they look very quare in thon harness.’ 1956B. Behan Quare Fellow i. 4 What was the commotion last night round in D. Wing? Did the quare fellow get a reprieve?.. Now which quare fellow do you mean? The fellow beat his wife to death..was reprieved. a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1977) 49 I've a quare bit of news for you. The brother's nose is out of order. 1977G. B. Adams in D. Ó Muirithe Eng. Lang. in Ireland 67 Mine ye, A was quare an gled tae get anntae ma settle bed thaat naght.
▪ III. quare
obs. form of quire, where. |