quaintness in English

noun

['quaint·ness || 'kweɪntnɪs]

strangeness, oddness, unusualness; charming old-fashioned quality

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1. Epstein attributed Starr's acclaim to "the little man's quaintness".

2. Amazement wondrous wonderful vanity surprise strange rare quaintness monumental marvellous astonishing amazing Asweve

3. Small, landlocked Austria offers alpine scenery, world-class museums, cobbled quaintness, and Wiener schnitzel

4. Close to Montparnasse... it's an average street... with people passing, talking... people behind each door, each window... that silent majority with a dreadful mask... yet who behave with the expected charm... and quaintness, on accordion music.

5. Simple David Willis Chuckled to himself a little over his ingenuity; he grew to like the quaintness of the name, and it was a constant reminder-if such were necessary-of the tragedy which belonged to the boy s birth

6. Cute: 1 adj attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness “a Cute kid with pigtails” “a Cute little apartment” Synonyms: cunning attractive pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm adj obviously contrived to charm “a child with intolerably Cute mannerisms” Synonyms: precious artful marked by

7. A man named Rigdum Funnidos is given credit for a number of the issues of the Comic Almanack, but who was he?Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable lists Funnidos as “A quick, active, intrepid little fellow, … full of fun and merriment, … all over quaintness and humorous mimicry, ….”Sir Walter Scott gave the name to his publisher, John Ballantyne, after a character in Henry Cary