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quaint 
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| 1. | having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house. |
| 2. | strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way: a quaint sense of humor. |
| 3. | skillfully or cleverly made. |
| 4. | Obsolete. wise; skilled. |
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME queinte < OF, var. of cointe clever, pleasing ≪ L cognitus known (ptp. of cognōscere; see cognition)]
] —Related forms
quaintly, adverb
quaintness, noun
—Synonyms 1. antiquated, archaic. 2. curious, uncommon.
—Antonyms 2. ordinary.
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adj. quaint·er, quaint·est
[Middle English, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French queinte, cointe, from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscere, to learn; see cognition.] quaint'ly adv., quaint'ness n. |
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quaint
c.1225, "cunning, proud, ingenious," from O.Fr. cointe "pretty, clever, knowing," from L. cognitus "known," pp. of cognoscere "get or come to know well" (see cognizance). Sense of "old-fashioned but charming" is first attested 1795, and could describe the word itself, which had become rare after c.1700 (though it soon recovered popularity in this secondary sense). Chaucer used quaint and queynte as spellings of cunt in "Canterbury Tales" (1386), and Andrew Marvell may be punning on it similarly in "To His Coy Mistress" (1650).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| quaint | |
adjective | |
| 1. | strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" |
| 2. | very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor" |
| 3. | attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots" [syn: old-time] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
quaint [kweint] adjective
pleasantly odd or strange, especially because of being old-fashioned
Example: quaint customs
Example: quaint customs
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