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1. (n.) quirk
a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism.
2. quirk
caprice; vagary; accident:
a quirk of fate.
3. quirk
a showy stroke, as in writing.
4. quirk
an acute angle or channel, as one dividing two parts of a molding.
5. (adj.) quirk
formed with a quirk or channel, as a molding.
Etymology: (1540–50; orig. uncert.)
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| Definition of 'quirk' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
a strange attitude or habit
2. (verb) quirk
a narrow groove beside a beading
3. (verb) quirk
twist or curve abruptly
"She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
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1. (noun) quirk
a strange habit
an eccentric man with many quirks
2. quirk
sth strange that happens, often by chance
a quirk of fate
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) quirk
a sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger
2. (noun) quirk
a fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice
3. (noun) quirk
a smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit
4. (noun) quirk
an irregular air; as, light quirks of music
5. (noun) quirk
a piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink
6. (noun) quirk
a small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding
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Sense: a strange or unusual feature of a person's behaviour etc.
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 Afrikaans: nuk |
 Arabic: مُراوَغَه، تَلاعُب بالألْ |
 Bulgarian: чудатост |
 Brazilian: particularidade |
 Czech: výstřednost |
 German: die Eigenart |
 Danish: ejendommelighed |
 Greek: λόξα, ιδιορρυθμία |
 Spanish: peculiaridad |
 Estonian: veidrus |
 Farsi: خصلت عجیب |
 Finnish: oikku |
 French: excentricité |
 Hebrew: מוּזָרוּת |
 Hindi: विचित्र व्यवहार |
 Croatian: igra riječima, varka |
 Hungarian: hirtelen fordulat; fintor |
 Indonesian: peri laku aneh |
 Icelandic: tiktúra, skringilegheit |
 Italian: vezzo |
 Japanese: 変った癖 |
 Korean: (행동, 성격 등의) 기발함 |
 Lithuanian: keistenybė |
 Latvian: dīvainība |
 Malay: sifat aneh |
 Dutch: hebbelijkheid |
 Norwegian: eksentrisk vane, lune |
 Polish: kaprys |
 Persian: خصلت عجیب |
 Pashto: ځانګړې خاصيت: (له لاسليك |
 Portuguese: particularidade |
 Romanian: ciudăţenie |
 Russian: причуда |
 Slovak: zvláštnosť, manier |
 Slovenian: čudaštvo |
 Serbian: osobenost |
 Swedish: egendomlighet, besynnerli |
 Thai: พฤติกรรมแปลก ๆ |
 Turkish: tuhaflık, acayiplik |
 Taiwanese: 古怪的舉動，怪癖 |
 Ukrainian: химера, викрут |
 Urdu: انوکھا انداز یا برتاؤ |
 Vietnamese: tật |
 Chinese: 古怪的举动，怪癖 |
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