Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun quirk
2 senses of quirk
Sense 1
oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet -- (a strange attitude or habit)
=> unfamiliarity, strangeness -- (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
Sense 2
quirk -- (a narrow groove beside a beading)
=> groove, channel -- (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb quirk
1 sense of quirk
Sense 1
quirk -- (twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way")
=> twist -- (turn in the opposite direction; "twist one's head")