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quaint

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: kw?nt, IPA(key): /kwe?nt/, [k?we??nt]
  • Rhymes: -e?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (pretty, clever, knowing), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cogn?sc? (I know).

Adjective

quaint (comparative quainter, superlative quaintest)

  1. (obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty. [13th-19th c.]
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2:
      But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are.
  2. (obsolete) Cleverly made; artfully contrived. [14th-19th c.]
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX:
      describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings [...].
  3. (now dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual. [from 14th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
      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 […].
    • 1924, Time, 17 Nov 1924:
      What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration.
  4. (obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim. [15th-19th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:
      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. [from 18th c.]
    • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma:
      I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me.
    • 2011, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 31 Jan 2011:
      The rock is a haven for rare wildlife, a landscape where pretty hedgerows and quaint villages are bordered by a breathtaking, craggy coastline.

Synonyms

  • (overly discriminating): See also Thesaurus:fastidious

Derived terms

  • quaintly
  • quaintness
  • quaintsome

Translations

Etymology 2

A variant of cunt (possibly as a pun).

Noun

quaint (plural quaints)

  1. (archaic) The vulva. [from 14th c.]
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Tale", Canterbury Tales:
      And trewely, as myne housbondes tolde me, / I hadde þe beste queynte þat myghte be.
    • 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, p. 9:
      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.’

Anagrams

  • quinta

Middle English

Adjective

quaint

  1. Alternative form of queynte

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abnormal

English

Alternative forms

  • anormal
  • (obsolete) abnormous

Etymology

From ab- +? normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis (departing from normal), from either (ab- (away from) + norma (rule, norm)), or Ancient Greek ???????? (an?malos).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?æb?n??.ml?/, /?b?n??.ml?/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)m?l

Adjective

abnormal (comparative more abnormal, superlative most abnormal)

  1. Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type. [First attested around the mid 19th century.]
  2. Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health. [First attested around the early 20th century.]

Synonyms

  • (not conforming to rule or system; deviating from type): aberrant, anomalous, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, irregular, preternatural, strange, unusual.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: abnormal

Translations

Noun

abnormal (plural abnormals)

  1. A person or object that is not normal.

References


Cebuano

Etymology

From English abnormal.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ab?nor?mal

Adjective

abnormal

  1. abnormal; deviating from the usual or normal type
  2. retarded; having mental retardation; mentally deficient
  3. stupid; lacking in intelligence

Noun

abnormal

  1. a retard
  2. a stupid person

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abnormal.

Derived terms

  • abno
  • abnoy

German

Etymology

Related to Latin ab- and normal

Pronunciation

Adjective

abnormal (comparative abnormaler, superlative am abnormalsten)

  1. abnormal

Declension

Related terms

  • Abnormalität

Further reading

  • “abnormal” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English abnormal, from Latin abn?rmis (departing from normal), from both ab- (away from, off), from ab (from, away from, of), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h?epó (off, away), and from n?rma (norm, standard; rule, precept) (with the suffix -is), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n, examiner, carpenter's square), from ???????? (gign?sk?, I am aware of) (with the suffix -??? (-m?n, I am aware of), from Proto-Indo-European *-m?), from Proto-Indo-European *?i?neh?- (with the suffix -??? (-sk?), from Proto-Indo-European *-s?éti), from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (to know). Equivalent to abnorm +? -al, suffix from French -al (-al), from Middle French, from Old French -al, from Latin -?lis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abn?r?m??l/
  • Rhymes: -??l
  • Hyphenation: ab?nor?mal

Adjective

abnormal (neuter singular abnormalt, definite singular and plural abnormale, comparative mer abnormal, superlative mest abnormal)

  1. abnormal (not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.)
    abnormal psykologi
    abnormal psychology
    Synonyms: anormal, unormal, uvanlig, usedvanlig, ualminnelig, overordentlig
    Antonyms: normal, vanlig, ordinær, gjennomsnittlig

References

  • “abnormal” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “abnormal” in Store norske leksikon

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