quaint

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a person: cunning, crafty.

   “But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are.”

2. sıfat Cleverly made; artfully contrived.

   “describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […].”

3. sıfat Strange or odd; unusual.

   “Till that there entered on the other side / A straunger knight, from whence no man could reed, / In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride […].”

4. sıfat Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.

   “She, nothing quaint / Nor 'sdeignfull of so homely fashion, / Sith brought she was now to so hard constraint, / Sate downe upon the dusty ground anon […].”

5. sıfat Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.

   “I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me.”

6. isim The vulva.

   “The rest looked on, horrified, as Clarice trussed up her habit and in open view placed her hand within her queynte[,] crying, ‘The first house of Sunday belongs to the sun, and the second to Venus.’”