quirk
kwurk
- n a strange attitude or habit
- n a narrow groove beside a beading
- v twist or curve abruptly
She quirked her head in a peculiar way
- It's tempting to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original--down to every hair and quirk of temperament.
- Trouble is, the best Brtchen is freshly baked Brtchen, and that is denied West Germans through a quirk of law dating back to Hitler.
- A novel in letters about love, death and books shows how, in the right circumstances, quirk works.