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mare noun- something good that is hard to believe, a dream UK
Amends conventional “nightmare” (a bad dream) and slang “nightmare” (something bad). - KNIGHTY: I don’t know, you try and go straight and some bloke just gives you a car. I can’t believe it. What a mare. DARCY Yer. What a mare. — Paul Fraser & Shane Meadows TwentyFourSeven, p. 58, 1997
- something undesirable IRELAND
- Christmas in my gaff is a complete mare, and we’re talking total here. — Paul Howard, The Teenage Dirtbag Years, p. 89, 2001
- an unpleasant, bad-tempered woman, especially as an insulting term of address UK, 1303
- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
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