[f. QUIRKY a. + -NESS.] The quality of being quirky.

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1867.  Nelson Exam., 19 Feb., 3/4. But Mr. Curtis dared to reckon that property, worth £1,000, would only yield £100 a-year. Here is ‘quirkiness’ with a vengeance.

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1879.  Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 355. All the … pieces of quirkiness which one sees, are things which I have rarely if ever found in old work.

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