quirking

Verb

quirk (third-person singular simple present quirks, present participle quirking, simple past and past participle quirked)

1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
   • He quirked an eyebrow.
2. (transitive) To furnish with a quirk or channel.
3. To alter in a unique and unusual way.
   • 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
4. (archaic, intransitive) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
   • I have stung her and wrung her,
     The venom is working;—
     And if you had hung her
     With canting and quirking,
     She could not be deader than she will be soon1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts

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