quirkish

adj

Etymology

From quirk + -ish.

  1. derived from kvirkja — “to choke, strangle
  2. inherited from querken
  3. derived from *gʷerh₃- — “to devour; maw
  4. derived from *kwerkō — “throat, gullet
  5. derived from kverk — “a bend or angle, especially below a cross-beam or below the chin, the bight of an axe", also "throat, gullet
  6. inherited from *querk
  7. suffixed as quirkish — “quirk + ish

Definitions

  1. Characterized by quirks

    Characterized by quirks; evasive, tricky.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quirkish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA