queerious
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queerious (comparative more queerious, superlative most queerious)
- Queer, curious: weird, odd, strange, bizarre.
- 1825, Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The Spirit of the Public Journals ...: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits ... that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications. With Explanatory Notes and Anecdotes of Many of the Persons Alluded to, page 44:
- Some said it was Aquarius,so queerious he'd get;
But he declar'd no soda-hack should ever share his whet;
His burnish'd sun was sol-o, soul-heart'ning was his cheer,
And quaffing of good porter long kept him from his bier,
As draughtsman he'd no equal, […]
- 1882, Jessie Margaret E. Saxby, Snow Dreams, Or, Funny Fancies for Little Folks, Edinburgh : Johnstone, Hunter, page 37:
- ... queerious but very cozy corners , we assure you , and really it is a delightful place to be in , and it is growing bigger every day. ' "But the King does not want us to come back. We hear that he has become quite as grave as the […]