Definition of QUAINT

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

quaint is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
quaint is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
quaint is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

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