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quirk 音標拼音: [kw'ɚk] n. 雙關語,俏皮話,警句 雙關語,俏皮話,警句 quirk n 1: a strange attitude or habit [ synonym: { oddity}, { queerness}, { quirk}, { quirkiness}, { crotchet}] 2: a narrow groove beside a beading v 1: twist or curve abruptly; " She quirked her head in a peculiar way" Quirk \ Quirk\ ( kw[~ e] rk), n. [ Written also { querk}.] [ Cf. W. chwiori to turn briskly, or E. queer.] 1. A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger. " Some quirk or . . . evasion." -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks. -- Barrow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice. [ Obs.] " Quirks of joy and grief." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. [ 1913 Webster] Some odd quirks and remnants of wit. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. An irregular air; as, light quirks of music. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Building) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink. -- Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Arch.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding. [ 1913 Webster] { Quirk molding}, a bead between two quirks. [ 1913 Webster] 121 Moby Thesaurus words for " quirk": aberration, anamorphism, anamorphosis, aroma, asymmetry, attribute, badge, boutade, brainstorm, brand, buckle, cachet, capriccio, caprice, cast, cavil, character, characteristic, conceit, configuration, contortion, crank, craze, crazy idea, crookedness, crotchet, cut, detorsion, deviation, differentia, differential, disproportion, distinctive feature, distortion, dodge, earmark, eccentricity, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, feature, figure, flavor, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, gnarl, gust, habit, hallmark, harebrained idea, humor, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, impress, impression, index, individualism, irregularity, jesuitism, keynote, kink, knot, lineaments, lopsidedness, maggot, mannerism, mark, marking, megrim, minauderie, mold, nature, notion, oddity, odor, particularity, passing fancy, peculiar trait, peculiarity, property, quality, quibble, quiddity, quillet, quip, quodlibet, savor, screw, seal, shape, shuffle, singularity, smack, specialty, stamp, taint, tang, taste, token, torsion, tortuosity, toy, trademark, trait, trick, trick of behavior, turn, twist, unsymmetry, vagary, warp, whim, whim- wham, whimsy, wrench, wrest, wring |
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