Querk vs. Quirk

(transitive) To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate.

A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy

(intransitive) To grunt, croak, squeal; to moan, complain; to sigh, huff; to emit a breath forcibly, as after great exertion.

An unpredictable or unaccountable act or event; a vagary

To die.

A sudden sharp turn or twist

(Architecture) A lengthwise groove on a molding between the convex upper part and the soffit.

(Archaic) An equivocation; a quibble.

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 (cause to) move with a wry jerk.

To furnish with a quirk or channel.

To use verbal tricks or quibbles.

A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.

A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.

An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.

A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; - sometimes written quink.

A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.

A strange attitude or habit

A narrow groove beside a beading

Twist or curve abruptly;