英语词汇“quaint”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

quaint

(kwānt)

adj. quaint·er, quaint·est

1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett ... was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus).

2. Archaic Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words.

3. Archaic Cleverly made or done.

[Middle English queinte, cointe, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French, clever, from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscere, to learn; see COGNITION.]

quaintly adv.

quaintness n.

单词	quaint
释义	quaint (kwānt) adj. quaint·er, quaint·est 1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett ... was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus). 2. Archaic Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. 3. Archaic Cleverly made or done. [Middle English queinte, cointe, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French, clever, from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscere, to learn; see COGNITION.] quaintly adv. quaintness n.
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