[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That quirks.

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1605.  F. Mason, Serm. (1607), 25. Surely … quirking braines may haue their conceits.

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1679.  C. Nesse, Antid. agst. Popery, 65. This quirking fryar.

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1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 23. The quirking rabbit scarcely leaves her hole.

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  Quirking, ppl. a.2: see QUIRK v.2 (quot. 1746).

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