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Quirk

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Noun

1. crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness

a strange attitude or habit

2. quirk

a narrow groove beside a beading

Verb

3. quirk

twist or curve abruptly

Example Sentences:
'She quirked her head in a peculiar way'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quirk

see synonyms of quirk
noun
1. 
an individual peculiarity of character; mannerism or foible
2. 
an unexpected twist or turn
a quirk of fate
3. 
a continuous groove in an architectural moulding
4. 
a flourish, as in handwriting

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Quirk

see synonyms of quirk
noun
1. 
a. 
a sudden twist, turn, or stroke
a quirk of fortune
b. 
a flourish in writing
2. 
an evasion, subterfuge, or quibble
3. 
a peculiarity, peculiar trait, or mannerism
4.  Rare
a clever turn of speech; sally; quip
5.  Architecture
a groove running lengthwise in a molding
verb transitive
6.  Architecture
to form with quirks

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quirk

see synonyms of quirk
n.
1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
2. An unpredictable or unaccountable act or event; a vagary: a quirk of fate.
3. A sudden sharp turn or twist: a quirk of the head.
4. Architecture A lengthwise groove on a molding between the convex upper part and the soffit.
5. Archaic An equivocation; a quibble.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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