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