ENGLISH: quaint - CREOLE: dròl



Overview of adj quaint



The adj quaint has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (3) quaint -- (strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities")

2. (1) quaint -- (very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor")

3. old-time, quaint, olde worlde -- (attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots")

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