strange adj.1
1. of women, unknown, hitherto unencountered.
‘Send Round the Hat’ in Roderick (1972) 475: It appeared that that there woman and them girls were strange women, in the local as well as the biblical sense of the word. | ||
Tomboy (1952) 164: Do you want to bust in on the church dance? [...] There ought to be some strange stuff there? | ||
On the Yard (2002) 111: Any man figures to get something strange ever’ once in a while. That’s nature. | ||
Digger’s Game (1981) 75: Maybe I try a little strange tail. | ||
Close Pursuit (1988) 225: You’re wading through all the strange pussy a man can handle every night. |
2. (Aus.) homosexual.
(con. 1945–6) Devil’s Jump (2008) 162: ‘Are you trying top tell me Mick Toohey was strange?’ ‘Queer as a corkscrew.’. |
In phrases
(Polari) don’t restrain yourself.
Fabulosa 291/2: don’t be strange! don’t hold back! |