a. [f. QUIRK sb. + -ISH.] Of the nature of a quirk.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1687), I. xiv. 195. A smart answer, a quirkish reason.
1882. E. P. Hood, in Leisure Hour, April, 227/1. He sets forth a number of quirkish reasons to prove that Partridge must be dead.