260/1: Queer doings in the dos (sleeping) and everything. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 259/1: At some of the places characterised by my informant as ‘rackety,’ ‘queer,’ or ‘Life in London,’ the charge is often 3d. Mayhew Paved with Gold 280: This looks queer Not much to be nabbed here. of a Female Slave 212: Dey spunk up and say dey was not niggers, but colored pussons, and dey call one anoder Mr. North Devon Jrnl 28 July 6/1: Rushlights are queerish things to write on This dark world would be worse without it. Smedley Frank Fairlegh (1878) 486: ‘Who is this miller, Peter?’ ‘Well, he’s a queer one,’ was the reply. 3/4: IT’s very so-so - nags queer, betting queer, tin queer, and everything else queer.į.E. ‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 8 Aug. Grant Sketches in London 57: It tastes queerish, old chap. 22 May 3/5: That’s the old King George, you know - though it does look summat queerish to me.ĭickens Oliver Twist (1966) 192: If there’s anything queer about him once we get to work in for a penny, in for a pound. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: Dang it, you be a queer one.Įgan Bk of Sports 26: The Pet’s mug looked a little queer. ‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 131: Rum slum-Gammon-queer talk or action, in which some fraudulent intentions are discoverable or suspected.Ĭ. ‘Holiday Time’ in Jovial Songster 69: So I drive oh / Yet I carry some queer ones, you see, / And in holiday time all alive, oh.Įgan Boxiana I 7: He strolled from race-grounds to fairs, endeavouring to pick up a crust as a gambler, but that proving a queer lay, he resorted to teaching the art of defence. Giles’s boys do fear.īridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 272: Call me a stupid queer old toad! Parker (attrib.) ‘The Sandman’s Wedding’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 65: For he’s the kiddy rum and queer, / That all the St. How queerly the cull touts how roguishly the fellow looks. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Queer or Quire, Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless.

513: No man in this queer age can thrive, / But Jacobites of forty-five. Sham Beggar I i: This is a damn’d queer Dog, ’ent he Jack?īridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 188: This bunter venus / Has thrown a queerish cloud between us. Dict.Ĭanting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. In D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 157: Grave Dons of the Law and quere Prigs of the Gown.īailey Universal Etym. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. Canting Crew n.p.: Queere, base, Roguish, naught. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. ‘Canting Song’ Head Canting Academy (1674) 23: A Canniken will Quire Cuffin / So quire to been Coves watch.

Rogue I 45: Till Cramprings quire, tip Cove his hire / and Quire-Ken do them catch. 1: Quier signifies naught, and Cuffin (as I sayd before) a Man: and in Canting they term a Juftice of Peace, (because he punisheth them belike) by no other name than by Quier Cuffin, that is to say a Churle, or a Naughty man.ĭekker Canting Song O per se O O1: You Mawnders all, stow what you stall, to Rome-coues watch so quire. Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 83: quier nought.

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