Vagary vs Quirk - What's the difference?
vagary | quirk |
An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
* 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
* 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone
(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.
(ambitransitive) To move with a wry jerk.
As nouns the difference between vagary and quirk
is that vagary is an erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action while quirk is an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.As a verb quirk is
(ambitransitive) to move with a wry jerk.vagary
English
Noun
(vagaries)- It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
Derived terms
* vagarity * vagariousSee also
* vagueryquirk
English
Noun
(en noun)- The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks .
Derived terms
* quirkyVerb
(en verb)- He quirked an eyebrow.
- The corners of her mouth quirked .