Dictionary Entry
quirk
quirk is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.
- 3noun
A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.
- 4noun
An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.
- 5noun
A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.
- 6noun
A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.
- 7noun
a narrow groove beside a beading
- 8noun
a strange attitude or habit
- 9verb
twist or curve abruptly
"She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
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