quaint
/kweɪnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are."
- "describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […]."
- "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 […]."
- "Lord Gifford, deep beneath the ground, / Heard Alexander's bugle sound, / And tarried not his garb to change, / But, in his wizard habit strange, / Came forth, a quaint and fearful sight; [...]"
- "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."
- "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 […]."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵneh₃-, queynte, cointe, cognitus