That's just a quirk of his.
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Quirk
//kwɜːk//
Synonyms for "quirk" (142 found)
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49 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- каприз noun (idiosyncrasy)
- приумица noun (idiosyncrasy)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 怪癖 noun (idiosyncrasy)
Czech
2 entries- potrhlost noun (idiosyncrasy)
- výstřednost noun (idiosyncrasy)
Danish
2 entries- finurlighed noun (idiosyncrasy)
- særhed noun (idiosyncrasy)
Dutch
3 entries- gril noun (idiosyncrasy)
- nuk noun (idiosyncrasy)
- rariteit noun (idiosyncrasy)
Esperanto
1 entries- strangaĵo noun (idiosyncrasy)
Finnish
2 entries- oikku noun (idiosyncrasy)
- omituisuus noun (idiosyncrasy)
French
3 entries- bizarrerie noun (idiosyncrasy)
- excentricité noun (idiosyncrasy)
- maniérisme noun (idiosyncrasy)
Georgian
2 entries- სიუცნაურე noun (idiosyncrasy)
- უცნაურობა noun (idiosyncrasy)
German
2 entries- Marotte noun (idiosyncrasy)
- Schrulle noun (idiosyncrasy)
Greek
1 entries- ιδιοτροπία noun (idiosyncrasy)
Indonesian
1 entries- kekocakan noun (idiosyncrasy)
Italian
1 entries- stranezza noun (idiosyncrasy)
Japanese
3 entries- 捩れ noun (idiosyncrasy)
- 歪み noun (idiosyncrasy)
- 癖 noun (idiosyncrasy)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- innfall noun (idiosyncrasy)
Polish
1 entries- dziwactwo noun (idiosyncrasy)
Portuguese
3 entries- idiossincrasia noun (idiosyncrasy)
- mania noun (idiosyncrasy)
- peculiaridade noun (idiosyncrasy)
Romanian
1 entries- particularitate noun (idiosyncrasy)
Russian
4 entries- загоны noun (idiosyncrasy)
- особенность noun (idiosyncrasy)
- причу́да noun (idiosyncrasy)
- тараканы в голове noun (idiosyncrasy)
Spanish
4 entries- bizarría noun (idiosyncrasy)
- excentricidad noun (idiosyncrasy)
- idiosincrasia noun (idiosyncrasy)
- manierismo noun (idiosyncrasy)
Swedish
4 entries- besynnerlighet noun (idiosyncrasy)
- egendomlighet noun (idiosyncrasy)
- egenhet noun (idiosyncrasy)
- underlighet noun (idiosyncrasy)
Turkish
1 entries- gariplik noun (idiosyncrasy)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
A quirk of the software was that it had to be restarted after every new entry.
Source: tatoeba (5887820)
It was just a quirk of fate.
Source: tatoeba (8983336)
The fact that the money came just then was a quirk of fate.
Source: tatoeba (8983337)
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