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queerish, a.|ˈkwɪərɪʃ|
Also 8 quear-.
[f. queer a.1 + -ish.]
Somewhat queer.
1747Gentl. Mag. 191 God knows the cause! but Nan looks quearish. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xlix. (1783) II. 97 Methinks the London ladies are a little queerish. 1819Shelley Peter Bell ii. vi, He called the ghost..It had a queerish look. 1846Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. II. 274, I myself did feel queerish and qualmy.
Hence ˈqueerishness.
1805Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen in 18th C. (Allardyce, 1888) I. 382 The queerishness of his countenance. |