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quare feller, de: the stranger
Source: LS1, LS3

Quarry(obsolete): pub toilet, usually an open pit
Source: IHBY

Queen, working for the(dockers): to be drawing unemployment benefits
Source: LS1

queen cake: a small currant cake, usually heart-shaped.
Sources: DBOC, OED

Queen o' ther midden: a conceited woman. A midden is a dung hill.
Source: LS2

queenie: an effeminate male
Source: LS2

Queen o' ther wash-house: an authoritative gossip, scandal monger.  Sometimes this person is referred to ironically as "a Kitty Wilkinson,"  in tribute to the Liverpool woman who founded the public wash houses.
Source: LS2

Queer: Ee's as queer as a nine-bob note, i.e, he buys his clothes in Carnaby Street. This is a contemptuous reference to a male homosexual. However, these days to say of someone that he or she is "queer as a coot" would mean only that he or she is eccentric.
Sources: LS1, Moloney

Queer (or quare) feller, the: the person whose name I don't know, what's-his-name. Sometimes it is another word for stranger.
Source: LS2

Queer Street, to be on: to be hard up, in a lot of trouble.  To end up on queer street meant to go bankrupt.
Source:  GS

Queer fella: constable, policeman
Source: ST

Quick Soldiers: children's jump rope game.  The rope would extend from one side of the street to the other, when this was played.
Source: LWAT

quick sticks, in: promptly, soon
Source: ZCAR

Quilt: term of contempt for someone. A man who acts like an old lady might be called an "owl quilt."
Source: SL

Quim: vagina. Minard writes that this is a corruption of "quoniam," a word for female genitals which goes back to the Middle Ages. Chaucer's Wife of Bath uses the term.
Source: LS3

Quins: another spelling for kewins, or small shellfish.  See "kewins."
Source: SL
 
 


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