Quare one

n.

Heard in Kerry and Offaly

One's wife or girlfriend.

In use

Jim: "You coming out to excercise the elbow?" Mike: "No I have to stay in wit the quare one"

Posh English

Jim inquired whether he was joining them at the hostelry to exercise the elbow. Mike replied that he must remain at home with the wife.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Chancin quare onesAttempting to secure a romantic or sexual encounter with an unsavoury young woman.
  • QuareStrange, unusual or peculiar.
  • Quare badExtremely or intensely bad.
  • Quare hawkAn eccentric or peculiar person.
  • Quare sickenedDisappointed or feeling quite downhearted.
  • Quare tacA peculiar and potent mixture of different alcoholic drinks in a single glass.