Meaning

An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone..

Definitions by Sense

1. An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
2. (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a molding and a soffit.
3. (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
4. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
5. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a quirk or channel.
6. To alter in a unique and unusual way.
7. (intransitive, archaic) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
8. Alternative form of querk.

Example Sentences

The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks.

Had you no quirk / To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature?

Let us not be too curious in prying into Gods arke, leaſt vve ſmart like the flie fluttering about the candle, for God is a conſuming fire to thoſe that vvill be ſporting themſelves in the quirks of their vvit about his ſacred myſteries.

He quirked an eyebrow.

The corners of her mouth quirked.

He quirked his lips playfully.

But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

I have stung her and wrung her, The venom is working;— And if you had hung her With canting and quirking, She could not be deader than she will be soon

Word Forms

• quirks
• quirking
• quirked

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Use quirk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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