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Queerish   Listen
adjective
Queerish  adj.  Rather queer; somewhat singular.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Queerish" Quotes from Famous Books



... about that! Really, I can't positively say; but it strikes me, if I were to get married to anybody else, there's somebody would feel queerish!" ...
— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth

... of, is it?" the huskily-musical voice went on. "It must be something like a hundred foot to the rocks down there." He paused and began again: "Moonshine's a queerish light, though, ain't it? Makes you look as white now as if you ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various

... used to be bothered about my balances, but I reasoned it out this way: We all have queerish balances, and the natives all know it, and water their copra in a proportion so that it's fair all round; but the truth is, it did use to bother me, and, though I did well in Falesa, I was half glad when the firm moved me on to another ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... a queerish face, His smile was most unpleasant; And though he meant it for a grace, Yet this old hen of barnyard race Was but a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... had queerish eyes; they projected like those of some insect, and were flattish in their orbit. His person was extremely small and boyish; he was, indeed, the least man I ever saw to be strictly well and neatly made. I remember a picture of him by Saunders being handed round at Dalkeith House. ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron



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