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quirky, a.|ˈkwɜːkɪ|
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
1. a. Full of quirks or shifts; tricky.
1806R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 297 Tam Tod was an ald-farran birkie,..Slee, snackie, and wilie, and quirkie. 1823Galt Entail II. xviii. 164 A quirkie bodie, capable o' making law no law at a'. 1898A. Balfour To Arms xiv. 153 Out upon you for a quack—a quirky quibbling quack, Sir.
b. Characterized by certain unexpected and often unspecified traits; idiosyncratic; peculiar. Also as n., an eccentric or peculiar person.
1960Guardian 8 July 4/2 There is..quirky colloquialism, idiomatic punning, play with unusual words. 1966New Statesman 8 July 62/3 It was perhaps unduly testing to place two substantial new works in the same programme; it was certainly quirky to preface them with Poulenc's Organ Concerto. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 5 May 520/2 The best of it is individual, quirky, and moving. 1975Publishers Weekly 21 July 62/1 Capricorn of Scotland Yard..investigates Smoky's suspect connections. He encounters quirkies aplenty. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 31 July 6/4 (Advt.), We're fascinated by strange, quirky questions that can lead us into corners of reality most people never even think about. 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. July/Aug. 36/3 Schwartz was also a fine (if uneven) writer of fiction whose best prose is characterized by a cynical urban realism that foreshadows Bellow's quirky, densely textured work.
2. Full of twists, turns, or flourishes.
1885in Cent. Dict. 1896N. Munro Lost Pibroch (1902) 80 [The] quirky lanes and closes were as black as the pit. |