Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quirk
Participle: quirked
Gerund: quirking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | quirk |
| you | quirk |
| he;she;it | quirks |
| we | quirk |
| you | quirk |
| they | quirk |
Perfect
| I | have quirked |
| you | have quirked |
| he;she;it | has quirked |
| we | have quirked |
| you | have quirked |
| they | have quirked |
Past
| I | quirked |
| you | quirked |
| he;she;it | quirked |
| we | quirked |
| you | quirked |
| they | quirked |
Pluperfect
| I | had quirked |
| you | had quirked |
| he;she;it | had quirked |
| we | had quirked |
| you | had quirked |
| they | had quirked |
Future
| I | will quirk |
| you | will quirk |
| he;she;it | will quirk |
| we | will quirk |
| you | will quirk |
| they | will quirk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have quirked |
| you | will have quirked |
| he;she;it | will have quirked |
| we | will have quirked |
| you | will have quirked |
| they | will have quirked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quirk |
| you | quirk |
| he;she;it | quirk |
| we | quirk |
| you | quirk |
| they | quirk |
Perfect
| I | have quirked |
| you | have quirked |
| he;she;it | have quirked |
| we | have quirked |
| you | have quirked |
| they | have quirked |
Imperfect
| I | quirked |
| you | quirked |
| he;she;it | quirked |
| we | quirked |
| you | quirked |
| they | quirked |
Pluperfect
| I | had quirked |
| you | had quirked |
| he;she;it | had quirked |
| we | had quirked |
| you | had quirked |
| they | had quirked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quirk |
| you | would quirk |
| he;she;it | would quirk |
| we | would quirk |
| you | would quirk |
| they | would quirk |
Perfect
| I | would have quirked |
| you | would have quirked |
| he;she;it | would have quirked |
| we | would have quirked |
| you | would have quirked |
| they | would have quirked |
Imperative
| you | quirk |
| we | Let's quirk |
| you | quirk |
Verbs conjugated like 'quirk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'quirk'
querk,
quick,
quire,
quirl,
quirt,
burk,
chirk,
dirk,
firk,
irk,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested in the 1540s. Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *querk, from Old Norse kverk (“a bend or angle, especially below a cross-beam or below the chin, the bight of an axe", also "throat, gullet”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“throat, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour; maw”). Cognate with Scots querk (“throat", also "any hollow in the body, such as an armpit, groin, instep, etc.”), Icelandic kverk (“interior angle”). Also partially from dialectal quirk, querk (“a whim, fancy, fuss, huff, complaint", also "to peevishly grumble, grunt, sigh, croak, die”), from Middle English querken, *quirken (“to choke”), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to choke, strangle”), from the same origin above. Related to dialectal querken, quirken (“to choke”). Likely not related to queer.
Sample Sentences
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He quirked an eyebrow.
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The corners of her mouth quirked.
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He quirked his lips playfully. [2017, Jane Gloriana Villanueva, Snow Falling, page 203:]
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But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind. [1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 19:]
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I have stung her and wrung her,
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The venom is working;—
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And if you had hung her
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With canting and quirking,
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She could not be deader than she will be soon [1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:]