quirk

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kwɜːk/
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• General-American: /kwɝk/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)k
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• CMU ARPABET: K W ER1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Irish and Manx surname, Anglicized from Ó Cuirc (“descendant of Corc”), a personal name derived from curc (“tuft of hair”). It was sometimes Anglicized as Oates due to an erroneous association with coirce (“oats”). Sometimes also a shortened variant of McGuirk.

First attested in the 1540s. Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *querk, from Old Norse kverk (“a bend or angle, especially below a cross-beam or below the chin, the bight of an axe", also "throat, gullet”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“throat, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gwerh3- (“to devour; maw”). Cognate with Scots querk (“throat", also "any hollow in the body, such as an armpit, groin, instep, etc.”), Icelandic kverk (“interior angle”). Also partially from dialectal quirk, querk (“a whim, fancy, fuss, huff, complaint", also "to peevishly grumble, grunt, sigh, croak, die”), from Middle English querken, *quirken (“to choke”), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to choke, strangle”), from the same origin above. Related to dialectal querken, quirken (“to choke”). Likely not related to queer.

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: приумица (priumica) — idiosyncrasy
• Bulgarian: каприз (kapriz) — idiosyncrasy
• Chinese Mandarin: 怪癖 (guàipǐ) — idiosyncrasy
• Czech: výstřednost — idiosyncrasy
• Czech: potrhlost — idiosyncrasy
• Danish: særhed — idiosyncrasy
• Danish: finurlighed — idiosyncrasy
• Dutch: gril — idiosyncrasy
• Dutch: rariteit — idiosyncrasy
• Dutch: nuk — idiosyncrasy
• Esperanto: strangaĵo — idiosyncrasy
• Finnish: oikku — idiosyncrasy
• Finnish: omituisuus — idiosyncrasy
• French: bizarrerie — idiosyncrasy
• French: excentricité — idiosyncrasy
• French: maniérisme — idiosyncrasy
• Georgian: სიუცნაურე (siucnaure) — idiosyncrasy
• Georgian: უცნაურობა (ucnauroba) — idiosyncrasy
• German: Schrulle — idiosyncrasy
• German: Marotte — idiosyncrasy
• Greek: ιδιοτροπία (idiotropía) — idiosyncrasy
• Indonesian: kekocakan — idiosyncrasy
• Italian: stranezza — idiosyncrasy
• Japanese: 歪み (yugami) — idiosyncrasy
• Japanese: 捩れ (nejire) — idiosyncrasy
• Japanese: 癖 (kuse) — idiosyncrasy
• Norwegian Bokmål: innfall — idiosyncrasy
• Polish: dziwactwo — idiosyncrasy
• Portuguese: idiossincrasia — idiosyncrasy
• Portuguese: peculiaridade — idiosyncrasy
• Portuguese: mania — idiosyncrasy
• Romanian: particularitate — idiosyncrasy
• Russian: причу́да (pričúda) — idiosyncrasy
• Russian: особенность (osobennostʹ) — idiosyncrasy
• Russian: загоны (zagony) — idiosyncrasy
• Russian: тараканы в голове (tarakany v golove) — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: idiosincrasia — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: manía — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: peculiaridad — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: singularidad — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: rareza — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: bizarría — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: excentricidad — idiosyncrasy
• Spanish: manierismo — idiosyncrasy
• Swedish: egendomlighet — idiosyncrasy
• Swedish: besynnerlighet — idiosyncrasy
• Swedish: underlighet — idiosyncrasy
• Swedish: egenhet — idiosyncrasy
• Turkish: gariplik — idiosyncrasy