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- quirk + -ish (Wiktionary)
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“Peter later recorded Magnet hits of his ownincluding Gee Baby and the predictably quirkish Love Me, Love My Dog.”
“Sometimes it lurketh under an odd Similitude: Sometimes it is lodged in a sly Question, in a smart Answer, in a quirkish”
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
“In its irrepressible vivacity it waits not for occasion, but runs on for ever, and we wish it to run on for ever: we have a sort of faith that her dreams are made up of cunning, quirkish, graceful fancies; her wits being in a frolic even when she is asleep.”
“This quirkish approach had worked in Texas before, at a time when the governor could go home and not be reached by telephone ” it was appropriate to a Texas sealed in on itself.”
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