queer as Dick's hatband
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A variant (the earliest attested and formerly most common) of the phrase Dick's hatband
Adjective
[edit]queer as Dick's hatband (not comparable)
- (colloquial, dated, possibly offensive) Very queer: very unusual or strange.
- 1742, James Ayres, Sancho at Court, act III, line 44:
- A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “hatband, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2017.