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Quirt

Definition: Quirt

Quirt

Noun

1. Whip with a leather thong at the end.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quirt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Quirt

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

QUIRT

EnglishReal time imaging and Quality control in Radiation TherapyN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Quirt

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Scourge

Blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Quirt

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Quirt and the Spur: Vanishing Shadows of the Texas Frontier (Double Mountain Books--Classic Reissues of the American West) (reference)

  • The South African Quirt (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Quirt

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

quirt

5

quirt walter

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Quirt

Language Translations for "quirt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kamzhik (discipline, flagellum, horsewhip, knout, lash, scourge, sjambok, switch, whip), fshikulloj (flagellate, flick, flog, lash, scourge, switch, whip). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سوط (cat, horsewhip, knout, lash, lashing, scourge, switch, whip), ‏ضرب بالصوت. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бич (lash, plague, scourge, whip), бия с камшик (cat, cowhide, flay, flog, larrup, lash, scourge, thong). (various references)

   

French

  

cravacher, cravache tressée. (various references)

   

German

  

geflochtene reitpeitsche. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαστίγιο (horsewhip, knout, lash, switch, whip). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lovaglókorbács, korbácsol (flog, to cowhide, to flog, to lash, to scourge, to whip). (various references)

   

Italian

  

frustino (crop, horsewhip, riding crop, riding whip, whip). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irtquay

   

Portuguese

  

chicotear (cowhide, horsewhip, lash, swish, whip), chicote (cat-o'-nine-tails, horsewhip, lash, scourge, whip), açoite (lash, scourge, tawse, whip), açoitar (flap, flog, lash, leather, swinge, swish, thrash, trounce, whip). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

арапник. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

udarati korbačem, korbač (horsewhip, kourbash). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuarta (quart, quarte, quarter), azotar con cuarta. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hundpiska. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

küçük kırbaç. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

хльостати гарапником, гарапник. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Quirt

Derivations

Words beginning with "quirt": quirted, quirting, quirts. (additional references)

Words ending with "quirt": squirt. (additional references)

Words containing "quirt": squirted, squirter, squirters, squirting, squirts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Quirt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: equir, kirt, Qeziot, Qift, qirt, quaft, quarat, quarb, quard, quarf, quarg, quarj, quarm, quarp, quarti, queert, quemt, quept, querd, querm, querp, querr, quert, querty, querw, quiar, quiat, quidt, quift, quiot, quipt, quir, quirc, quird, quirg, Quirm, quirn, quiro, quirp, quirs, quirx, quiry, quis, quith, quitt, quity, quixt, quoir, Quorshi, quort, quorte, quott, qurd, quri, quria, quric, quril, qurrt, qursh, qurt, ukirt, urit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Quirt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-q-r-t-u"

-1 letter: quit.

-2 letters: rut, tui.

-3 letters: it, ti, ut.

 Words containing the letters "i-q-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: quirts, squirt.

 

+2 letters: briquet, quartic, querist, quieter, quilter, quintar, quirted, quitter, quittor, requite, squirts.

 

+3 letters: antiquer, aquarist, briquets, critique, pratique, quainter, quartics, quartile, quatrain, querists, quieters, quilters, quintars, quipster, quirting, quitrent, quitters, quittors, quixotry, requital, requited, requiter, requites, sequitur, squinter, squirted, squirter, torquing, tranquil, turquois.

 

+4 letters: acquitter, antiquark, antiquary, antiquers, aquarists, briquette, critiqued, critiques, pratiques, quadratic, quantizer, quartiles, quartzite, quatrains, quercetin, quipsters, quirkiest, quitrents, requisite, requitals, requiters, requiting, roqueting, sequiturs, sobriquet, squattier, squinters, squintier, squirters, squirting, turquoise, unquieter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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