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Quirk vs Escapade - What's the difference?

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Quirk is a related term of escapade.


As nouns the difference between quirk and escapade

is that quirk is an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone while escapade is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

As a verb quirk

is (ambitransitive) to move with a wry jerk.

quirk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone
    • The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks .
  • (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit
  • (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.

    • Derived terms

    * quirky

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To move with a wry jerk.
    • He quirked an eyebrow.
    The corners of her mouth quirked .

    escapade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
  • * 1724 , :
    • The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.
  • * 1816 , , The Antiquary - Volume II , ch. 9:
    • [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
  • * 1918 , , Piccadilly Jim , ch. 1:
    • He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
  • * 2011 March 4, , " The Adjustment Bureau''" (film review), ''Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):
    • He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.