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[ noun ] a strange attitude or habit

Used in print

(U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)

It is not a medieval mental quirk or an attitude `` unnourished by sense '' to believe that husbands and wives should not be subjected to such a risk , or that such a possibility should not be permitted to endanger the confidentiality of the marriage relationship .

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unfamiliarity

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[ verb ] twist or curve abruptly

Examples

"She quirked her head in a peculiar way"

Used in print

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

Here , too , she talked low , quirking her head at one or another of the places , most often at Izaak 's armchair which faced her across the long table .

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twist

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6203
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[ noun ] a narrow groove beside a beading

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groove

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