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queer as Dick's hatband en · ADJ

Etymology

A variant (the earliest attested and formerly most common) of the phrase Dick's hatband

Meanings

1. (colloquial, dated, not-comparable) Very queer: very unusual or strange.
   • A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band. 1742, James Ayres, Sancho at Court, act III, line 44:

Deriveds

as queer as Dick's hatband

Synonyms

strange