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quirk

[kwurk]
–noun
1. a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
2. a shift, subterfuge, or evasion; quibble.
3. a sudden twist or turn: He lost his money by a quirk of fate.
4. a flourish or showy stroke, as in writing.
5. Architecture.
a. an acute angle or channel, as one dividing two parts of a molding or one dividing a flush bead from the adjoining surfaces.
b. an area taken from a larger area, as a room or a plot of ground.
c. an enclosure for this area.
6. Obsolete. a clever or witty remark; quip.
–adjective
7. formed with a quirk or channel, as a molding.

Origin:
1540–50; orig. uncert.


1. See eccentricity.
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