Queer hawk

n.

Heard in Cork, Donegal, Dublin and Meath

A suspicious or odd character.

In use

Keep your eye on that feen, he's a right queer hawk.

Posh English

Keep your eye on that fellow. He is a distinctly suspicious character.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Quare hawkAn odd or eccentric fellow.
  • Queer badAn exclamation of shock at something terrible that has happened.
  • HawkA term used for anyone from the Hillview area of Waterford.
  • Shyte-hawkA gobshyte, often used to describe someone with a large cranium, metaphorically speaking.
  • OddAngry with someone or in a bad mood with them.
  • Odd sortAn eccentric or peculiar individual.