Quirk

Definition: Quirk

Quirk

Noun

1. A strange attitude or habit.

2. A narrow groove beside a beading.

Verb

1. Twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way".

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

Date "quirk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Note: Quirk \Quirk\, noun. [Written also querk.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Quirk

Amusement

Fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk.

Caprice

Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink.

Misjudgment

Bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.

Reasoning,

Sophism, solecism, paralogism; quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet; inconsistency, antilogy; "a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"; claptrap, cant, mere words; "lame and impotent conclusion".

Wit

Jest, joke, jape, jibe; facetiae, levity, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae nugae; standing jest, standing joke, private joke, conceit, quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto, plaisanterie, brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot, mot pour rire; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot,jeu d'esprit,epigram; jest book; dry joke, quodlibet, cream of the jest.

Crosswords: Quirk

Now, the wife of this couple had an interesting quirk in the bedroom. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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

Books

• Isobel Quirk in orbit (reference)

• Quirk of fate (photographs) (reference)

• Studies in English Linguistics for Randolph Quirk (reference)

• The King and Queen of Quirk and the Remarkable Try-My-Shooz (Adventures in the Great Stone Balloon) (reference)

• The Quirk (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Quirk (vicinity), New Mexico. A train rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Political Economy

OMAN

Net oil revenues increased by 25.8 percent during the period January through August 2001 compared to the same period in 2000; however, this is due to a quirk in Oman's official accounting, whereby oil revenues up to a set price ($14.50 in 2000, and $18.00 in 2001) are counted as revenue, while excess revenues are quietly credited to the State General Reserve Fund. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "quirk": bead and quirk ♦ quirk bead ♦ quirk molding ♦ quirk moulding ♦ quirk of fate. Additional references.

Beginning with "quirk": quirk-pen.

Ending with "quirk": Shirley-quirk.

Albanian

sjellje e çuditshme (antic, eccentricity), lojë fjalësh (pun, quip, wordplay), kalambur, gjë e çuditshme (oddity, quip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميزة غريبة, ‏موسيقى الرقص, ‏هوس (lock, mania), ‏نزوة (caprice, crank, fancy, fantasy, freak, heat, maggot, phantasy, vagary, whim, whimsy), ‏توقيع (having smb. sign, signature, signing up, subscription), ‏شذوذ (abecedarian, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, anomie, eccentricity, exception, kink, oddity, sports). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усукване (doubling, salvo, torsion, twine), увъртане (subterfuge), улей (furrow, gutter, headrace, lead, penstock, rabbet, run, runway, spout), скимване, хрумване (fancy, flash, idea, impulse, inspiration, notion, whim, whimsy, whim-wham), чудатост (comicality, eccentricity, faddiness, kink, peculiarity, singularity, strangeness, twist), каприз (caprice, crank, fad, fancy, fit, freak, maggot, megrim, vagary, vagrancy, whimsy, whim-wham), завъртулка (curlicue, doodle, scroll, squiggle, twirl), бравурен пасаж, приумица (freak, vagary, vagrancy, whim-wham), поврат (bend, change, mutation, turn, turning point). (various references)

Chinese 

突变. (various references)

Czech

výstřednost (eccentricity, extravagance, kink, oddity, peculiarity, weirdness, wilderness), slovní trik, manýra (manner), šprým (jape, jest, joke, prank), škubnutí (jerk, lurch, pluck, pull, stab, tug, twinge, twitch, yank). (various references)

Farsi 

مزاجی , حیاط (Compound, Court, Curtilage, Patio), تناقض گوءی , تغییرفکر, تغییرناگهانی (Mutation, Revulsion, Whim), تزءینات یاخصوصیات خطنویسی شخص , خصوصیات (Feature, Particular, Pattern), دمدمی (Ambivalent, Uncertain, Unpredictable). (various references)

Finnish

omituinen mielijohde (caprice, whim). (various references)

French

paraphe, excentricité, caprice, bizarrerie (quaintness, queerness), arabesque. (various references)

German

Spleen (crazy idea, eccentricity, ill humor, ill humour, obsession, spleen, strange habit), Eigenart (characteristic, foible, idiosyncrasy, individuality, peculiarity, trick). (various references)

Greek 

ιδιοτροπία (caprice, crankiness, crotchetiness, faddiness, fancy, freak, kink, maggot, moodiness, tetchiness, vagary, whim, whimsicalness, whimsy), υπεκφυγή (elusion, evasion, loophole, prevarication, quibble, shift, stall, subterfuge, tergiversation), τέχνασμα (artifice, claptrap, contraption, contrivance, deception, device, expedient, maneuver, manoeuvre, ruff, ruse, sleight, subterfuge, trick, wile). (various references)

Hebrew 

תכו� �" מוזר�", ש�'עון (absurdity, craziness, insanity, kink, lunacy, madness, mania, whim). (various references)

Hungarian

bemondás (bid, call, crack, gag, quip, sally). (various references)

Indonesian

olok-olok (badinage, hoax, quip, raillery). (various references)

Italian

stranezza (curiousness, eccentricity, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, singularity, singularness, strangeness, unusualness). (various references)

Korean 

버르장이. (various references)

Manx

Mac Cuirc, chyndaa (avert, avert eyes, convert, deflect, invert, return, revolve, translate, turn, turn over, twirl). (various references)

Norwegian

særhet, lune (caprice, freak), innfall (fad, impulse). (various references)

Pig Latin

irkquay

Portuguese

sofisma (cavil, chicanery, fallacy, fetch, quibble, quiddity, quip, sophism, sophistry), observação sarcástica (quip, stinger), evasiva (ambages, dodge, dodgery, elusion, evasion, prevarication, quibble, salvo, shuffle, subterfuge, tergiversation), equívoco (equivocal, fishy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, misjudgement, mistake, misunderstanding, oversight, questionable, quibble, slip-up, suspicious), dito espirituoso (mot, quip, witticism). (various references)

Romanian

spirit (apparition, crack, essence, genius, ghost, intellect, mind, score, shade, shadow, soul, spectre, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, vision, wit), capriciu (caprice, crotchet, fad, fancy, freak, notion, whim, whimsy), calambur (equivoque, paronomasia, pun, quibble, wordplay). (various references)

Russian 

каламбур (equivoke, equivoque, paronomasia, play on words, pun, quibble, wordplay, word-play), выкрутасы, выверт, завиток (curl, tendril, volute, volution, whorl, wreath). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvijanje (twist), okuka (bend, curve, turning), kapric (caprice, whim), ćef (caprice, whim). (various references)

Spanish

rasgo (characteristic, dash, emotion, feature, flourish, lineament, streak, trait, twirl, twist, vein), peculiaridad (kink, mannerism, peculiarity, singularity, trick, twist), ocurrencia (bon mot, event, idea, occurrence, prolapse, witticism), mediacaña, escapatoria (escape, flight, getaway, loophole, secret trip, shift), capricho (capriccio, caprice, fancy, fantasy, freak, humor, humour, mood, notion, obstinacy, phantasy, sulkiness, vagary, waywardness, whim, whimsey, whimsy). (various references)

Swedish

snirkel (flourish, scroll), sarkasm (sarcasm), besynnerlighet (mysteriousness, oddity, peculiarity, strangeness). (various references)

Turkish

yazı süsü, orijinallik (individuality, originality, raciness), kaçamak cevap (evasive answer), iğneleyici söz (barb, biting words, cutting words, sideswipe), hazırcevap (comeback, nimble-witted, quick at repartee, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, quip, readywitted, repartee, riposte, witty), espri (crack, drollery, humor, humour, quip, Sally, salt, wisecrack, witticism), beklenmedik olay (accident, contingency, contingent, thunderbolt), acayiplik (antics, crankiness, eccentricity, fantasticality, lark, novelty, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality, whimsicalness), acayip hareket. (various references)

Ukrainian

розчерк пера, каламбурити (pun, quibble), каламбур (allusion, annomination, clinch, conundrum, pun, quibble, quibbling, wordplay), глузувати (banter, flout, jeer, jest, poke fun, scoff, sneer, taunt, twit), виверт (afterthought, amphibology, amphiboly, circumvention, elusion, evasion, expedient, put off, shift, shuffle, wangle), дотеп (esprit, gag, joke, mot, nifty, repartee, salt, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism, yak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nét chữ kiểu cách, mưu thoái thác, lời nói nước đôi nét chữ uốn cong, lời giễu cợt (chaff, cynicism, raillery), lời châm biếm lời thoái thác. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quirk": quirked, quirkier, quirkiest, quirkily, quirkiness, quirkinesses, quirking, quirkish, quirks, quirky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quirk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cirk, equir, Luirc, qik, quarb, quarc, quarf, quarg, quari, quarj, quarm, quarp, queek, querm, Quero, querp, querw, quiar, quiek, quiero, quigk, quik, quilk, quink, quir, quirc, quirck, quird, quirg, quirke, Quirm, quirn, quiro, quirp, quirs, quirx, quiry, quisk, quoir, quok, quork, quri, quria, quric, quril, qurk, Qwik, squirk, Tuirc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: irk, kir.

+1 letter: quirks, quirky.

+2 letters: quakier, quicker, quirked.

+3 letters: quirkier, quirkily, quirking, quirkish.

+4 letters: antiquark, quickener, quillwork, quirkiest, squeakier.

+5 letters: antiquarks, microquake, quackeries, quickeners, quillworks, quirkiness.