quare-looken

Updated: May 14, 2025

"What did you say it was?" asked Mrs Gilmour. "A `fowl, sure? Faith it's a quare-looken' bird, Cap'en dear!" The Captain smiled, but he was not to be tempted away from his hobby. "The pholas, I said, ma'am," he replied.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Bob Strong's Holidays: Adrift in the Channel