queer (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

queer

QUIRE

Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fellow looks. It also means odd, uncommon. Cant.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

queen street * queer as dick’s hatband

Nearby

Nathan Bailey's 1721 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

quakers
quaking cheat
quandary
quarrel-picker
quarromes
quartered
to quash
quean
queen dick
queen street
queer
queer as dick’s hatband
to queer
queer wedges
queer bail
queer birds
queer bit-makers
queer bitch
queer bluffer
queer bung
queer checkers