quaint

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kweɪnt/|[kʰweɪ̯nt]    美 /kweɪnt/|[kʰweɪ̯nt]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The vulva. historical,obsolete
    — 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.’
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a person: cunning, crafty. obsolete
    — But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are.
  2. Cleverly made; artfully contrived. obsolete
    — describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […].
  3. Strange or odd; unusual. dialectal
    — 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. Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim. obsolete
    — 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. 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.

词形变化

quainter comparative quaintest superlative quaints plural

词汇关系

衍生词
quaintish quaintlike quaintly quaintness quaintsome unquaint

词源

词源 1
From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (“pretty, clever, knowing”), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscō (“to know”).
词源 2
From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (“pretty, clever, knowing”), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscō (“to know”).
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