Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. in a criminal manner.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Queere, How Queerely the Cull Touts, how roguishly the Fellow looks.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1791		H. Lemoine ‘Education’ in Attic Misc. 117: Both’ring the flats assembled round the quod / The queerum queerly smear’d with dirty black.
1824		‘Sonnets for the Fancy’ in Egan Boxiana III 622: [as 1791].

2. (UK Und.) badly.

1761		Scots Mag. 1 Sept. 41/2: The wedding dinner tastes but queerly / To those who do not love sincerely.
1789		G. Parker Life’s Painter 134: The kelter tumbles in but queerly.
1812		Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 275: [...] to tog a person, is also to supply them with apparel, and they are said to be well or queerly tog’d, according to their appearance.