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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
quirk
quirk [quirk quirks] noun, verb BrE [kwɜːk] NAmE [kwɜːrk]
noun
1. an aspect of sb's personality or behaviour that is a little strange
Syn: ↑peculiarity
•Everyone has their own little quirks and mannerisms.
2. a strange thing that happens, especially by accident
•By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.
•an unpredictable quirk of history
Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (as a verb): of unknown origin. The early sense of the noun was ‘subtle verbal twist, quibble’, later ‘unexpected twist’.
Example Bank:
•The system has some odd little quirks.
•as a result of some quirk in the social order
•It was a remarkable quirk in his otherwise orderly character.
•Perhaps it's some quirk in your nature that makes you behave like that.
•They accepted it as one of her little quirks.
Derived Word: ↑quirky
verb transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) (especially NAmE)
to twist your mouth or eyebrows suddenly; (of your mouth or eyebrows) to move in this way
•David quirked an eyebrow and smirked slightly.
•Her lips quirked suddenly.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (as a verb): of unknown origin. The early sense of the noun was ‘subtle verbal twist, quibble’, later ‘unexpected twist’.
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