a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.]
1. Full of quirks or shifts; tricky.
1806. R. Jamieson, Pop. Ballads, I. 297. Tam Tod was an ald-farran birkie,… Slee, snackie, and wilie, and quirkie.
1823. Galt, Entail, II. xviii. 164. A quirkie bodie, capable o’ making law no law at a’.
1898. A. Balfour, To Arms! xiv. 259. Out upon you for a quack,—a quirky, quibbling quack, sir!
2. Full of twists, turns or flourishes.
1885. in Cent. Dict.
1896. N. Munro, Lost Pibroch (1902), 80. [The] quirky lanes and closes were as black as the pit.
