A fork of Rural Dictionary
Carlow slang (it ain't fucking Wexford slang and it sure as shit ain't Ulster slang) used in place of the words "very", "weird", or "homosexual". And also used in Irish pidgin english.
I'm quare randy There's something quare about the water He's a quare chap, or, he's quare gay I'm quare fucked up of your quarehawk shite.
A formulation of queer theory with attention given to race and class. Most current formulations of queer theory either ignore the categories of race and class altogether or theorize their effects in discursive rather than material terms. To suture that gap, "quare" studies as a vernacular rearticulation and deployment of queer theory accommodates racialized sexual knowledge.
He, a young, African-American, Queer boy from the Harlem ghetto, felt he never was able to relate to the theories and processes discussed in his Queer biographies class, until they discussed Richard Nugent. Studying Richard Nugent --American writer, painter and important figure in the Harlem Renaissance -- offered him more than an exploration of Queer studies, it was a moment of self-realization in his Quare identity; he no longer felt fragmented between his racial, class, and sexuality identities. The class was no longer just about his Queer identity because it had evolved into Quare Studies.
Variant of Queer. Can mean a homosexual but more likely to mean a strange fish, oddball, wierdo, more unsettling to meet than your typical shite hawk
"That fella is a right quare hawk. They say he talks to his shadow and wears odd socks." "Julian stop playing with those tulips, you'll make Grand Dad think you're a quarehawk."
Dublin rhyming slang ("Quare" from the originally derogatory "queer" for gay, homosexual) for the reclining statue of Oscar Wilde, carved in County Cork from rocks of various colours. The statue is mounted on a boulder at one corner of Archbishop Ryan Park, Merrion Square, Dublin, opposite two metal columns inscribed with quotes from Wilde.
You've just got to come and see the tart with the cart and the quare on the square.
This word means whatever the user of the word wants it to mean. The type of nonsensical word a middle-aged Mordecai uses because of his nostalgic crush on old men from the south. Additionally he uses it to confuse others when he himself is confused and doesn't want to be discovered.