quirk
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Is quirk a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a molding and a soffit.
2. (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.Examples: "Had you no quirk / To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature?"; "Let us not be too curious in prying into Gods arke, leaſt vve ſmart like the flie fluttering about the candle, for God is a conſuming fire to thoſe that vvill be ſporting themſelves in the quirks of their vvit about his ſacred myſteries."archaic
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.Examples: "He quirked an eyebrow."; "The corners of her mouth quirked."; "He quirked his lips playfully."ambitransitive
2. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a quirk or channel.transitive
3. (intransitive, archaic) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.Examples: "I have stung her and wrung her, The venom is working;— And if you had hung her With canting and quirking, She could not be deader than she will be soon"archaicintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary