quaint
Meanings
Plural: quaints
Adjective Satellite
- strange in an interesting or pleasing way
- "quaint dialect words"
- "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
- very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; - Bill Beatty; - Sir Walter Scott
- "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"
- "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"
- "a quaint sense of humor"
- attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
- "houses with quaint thatched roofs"
Adj
- Of a person: cunning, crafty.
- Cleverly made; artfully contrived.
- Strange or odd; unusual.
- Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.
- Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
Noun
- The vulva.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (“pretty, clever, knowing”), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscō (“I know”).
Synonyms
old-time, olde worlde
Scrabble Score: 15
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Words With Friends Score: 17
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