Showing posts with label quirky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quirky. Show all posts

15 Mar 2012

THE MEANING OF "QUIRKY"

Jenny Matlock
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I don't know why, but I love the word "quirky" ! I heard it for the first time watching the BBC series "Escape to the country" where houses, rooms or even gardens where discribed as "quirky". This made me curious and I did a little research about this word and that's what I learned :

Quirky means a mixture of odd, unusual, eccentric, idiosyncratic, curious, peculiar, unpredictable, singular, fanciful, whimsical, capricious.

It is a word best used by one person to describe another. Those who apply "quirky" to themselves thereby call into question their very own "quirkiness" by seeming gleefully self-aware and that's why it makes me think maybe I like the word because it rather fits on me of course with some exceptions.

I also read that something or someone that is quirky is rather odd or unpredictable in their appearance, character, or behaviour. And quirky means: strikingly unconventional.



Some Quirky Quotes :

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. - Walter Matthau

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen

A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists."

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."