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quirkle

noun

Etymology

From quirk + -le.

  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 quirkle — “quirk + -le”

Definitions

  1. A twist.

  2. A puzzle, especially one whose answer depends on a catch or pun.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quirkle. 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