quirk

n

1. idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, particularity, singularity, rarity; peculiarity, oddity, curiosity, warp; abnormality, aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, freak, anomaly, Rare. anomalism; irregularity, variation, deviation, discrepancy, exception; mannerism, habit, behavior, one's own way of doing things, affectation; characteristic, trait, feature, attribute, quality, property; quip, crotchet, whim, whimsy, notion, caprice, flight of fancy, vagary, humor; obsession, infatuation, fixation, mania, craze, passion, fetishism, blind devotion; pet idea, hobby-horse, pet peeve, ax to grind, bee in one's bonnet; monomania, fixed idea, Fr. idee fixe, Sl. hang-up.

2. subterfuge, evasion, elusion, avoidance, excuse; equivocation, equivoque, amphibology, ambiguity, double speak, double talk; song and dance, jive, hedging, beating around the bush; quibble, quiddity, subtlety, sophism, sophistry, elenchus, casuistry, Both Disparaging. Jesuitism, Jesuitry, Both Logic. paralogism, antilogism; shift, dodge, shuffle, fancy footwork, maneuver, move; trick, artifice, stratagem, wile, ruse, chicanery, chicane, sham, make-believe, deception; pretext, pretense, front, disguise, mask, veil.

3. twist, turn, curve, angle; flourish, twirl, coil, spiral, fancy stroke, convolution, contortion.