quaint
(adjective) strange in an interesting or pleasing way; âquaint dialect wordsâ; âquaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American citiesâ
quaint
(adjective) very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; âthe head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular nameâ- Bill Beatty; âcame forth a quaint and fearful sightâ- Sir Walter Scott; âa quaint sense of humorâ
quaint, old-time, olde worlde
(adjective) attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); âhouses with quaint thatched roofsâ; âa vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney potsâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
quaint (comparative quainter, superlative quaintest)
(obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty. [13th-19th c.]
(obsolete) Cleverly made; artfully contrived. [14th-19th c.]
(now dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual. [from 14th c.]
(obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim. [15th-19th c.]
Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm. [from 18th c.]
• (overly discriminating): See also fastidious
A variant of cunt (possibly as a pun).
quaint (plural quaints)
(archaic) The vulva. [from 14th c.]
• quinta
Source: Wiktionary
Quaint, a. Etym: [OE. queint, queynte, coint, prudent, wise, cunning, pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for gnoscere) to know. See Know, and cf. Acquaint, Cognition.]
1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.] Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer.
2. Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat. [Archaic] " The queynte ring." " His queynte spear." Chaucer. " A shepherd young quaint." Chapman. Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. Spenser. To show bow quaint an orator you are. Shak.
3. Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression. Some stroke of quaint yet simple pleasantry. Macaulay. An old, long-faced, long-bodied servant in quaint livery. W. Irving.
Syn.
– Quaint, Odd, Antique. Antique is applied to that which has come down from the ancients, or which is made to imitate some ancient work of art. Odd implies disharmony, incongruity, or unevenness. An odd thing or person is an exception to general rules of calculation and procedure, or expectation and common experience. In the current use of quaint, the two ideas of odd and antique are combined, and the word is commonly applied to that which is pleasing by reason of both these qualities. Thus, we speak of the quaint architecture of many old buildings in London; or a quaint expression, uniting at once the antique and the fanciful.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and whatâs left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
