QUEER KICKS. A bad pair of breeches.
QUEER MORT. A diseased strumpet. CANT.
QUEER NAB. A felt hat, or other bad hat.
QUEER PLUNGERS. Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each; and the supposed drowned persons, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
QUEER PRANCER. A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
QUEER ROOSTER. An informer that pretends to be sleeping,
and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in
night cellars.
QUEER STREET. Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's
wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify
that it is wrong or different to our wish.
QUITAM. A quitam horse; one that will both carry and
draw. LAW WIT.
TO QUIBBLE. To make subtle distinctions; also to play
upon words.
QUICK AND NIMBLE. More like a bear than a squirrel.
Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business
or errand that requires dispatch.