quirk

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

quirks

1.
An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks.
Đồng nghĩa: foible
2.
(architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a molding and a soffit.
3.
(archaic)A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

quirks

V_ing/Gerund

quirking

V_ed/pp

quirked

1.
(ambitransitive)To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
He quirked an eyebrow.
The corners of her mouth quirked.
2.
(transitive)(transitive, architecture) To furnish with a quirk or channel.
3.
To alter in a unique and unusual way.
4.
(archaic, intransitive)To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
5.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of querk.

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Đồng nghĩa

foible

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

First attested in the 1540s. Of origin. Possibly from Middle English *querk, from Old Norse kverk, from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (throat, gullet), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (to devour; maw). Cognate with querk, kverk. Also partially from dialectal quirk, querk, from Middle English querken, *quirken (to choke), from Old Norse kvirkja (to choke, strangle), from the same origin above.