a. [f. QUIRK sb. + -ISH.] Of the nature of a quirk.

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a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm. (1687), I. xiv. 195. A smart answer,… a quirkish reason.

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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.

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