quirk|i|ness

quirk|i|ness
quirk|i|ness «KWUR kee nihs», noun.
the state or quality of being quirky: »

Some jazz highbrows…attribute Armstrong's fondness for Lombardo to the same inexplicable quirkiness that occasionally moves a thoroughbred race horse to pal around with a goat (New Yorker).


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