quaint

quaint
adjective
drollig; putzig (ugs.) [Häuschen, Einrichtung]; malerisch, pittoresk [Ort]; (odd, strange) kurios, seltsam [Bräuche, Anblick, Begebenheit]
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[kweint]
adjective
(pleasantly odd or strange, especially because of being old-fashioned: quaint customs.) wunderlich
- academic.ru/90621/quaintly">quaintly
- quaintness
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quaint
[kweɪnt]
adj
1. (charming) reizend, entzückend, wunderschön; landscape, village idyllisch, malerisch, pittoresk geh; cottage, pub urig
2. (also pej: strangely old-fashioned) customs, way of speaking altmodisch [o altertümlich] [anmutend] a. pej; expression, name altmodisch [o altertümlich] [klingend] a. pej
3. (usu pej: strange) person eigenartig, sonderbar, wunderlich, schrullig, verschroben oft pej
\quaint old man alter Sonderling [o pej Kauz]
\quaint old woman schrullige [o wunderliche] Alte; customs, ideas, sight eigenartig, eigentümlich, sonderbar, seltsam, kurios oft pej
a \quaint sense of humour ein seltsamer [o eigenartiger] Sinn für Humor; views eigentümlich, verschroben oft pej
4. (pleasantly unusual) encounter, sound wundersam
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[kweɪnt]
adj (+er)
(= picturesque) cottage, village, scene malerisch, idyllisch; (= charmingly old-fashioned) pub, custom, expression urig, reizend; (= pleasantly odd) idea kurios, schnurrig, putzig; nickname originell; person, way of speaking drollig

how quaint to live in such an old house —

what a thought, my dear, how quaint! — nein so was, meine Liebe, wie originell!

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quaint [kweınt] adj (adv quaintly)
1. idyllisch, malerisch
2. seltsam, merkwürdig
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adjective
drollig; putzig (ugs.) [Häuschen, Einrichtung]; malerisch, pittoresk [Ort]; (odd, strange) kurios, seltsam [Bräuche, Anblick, Begebenheit]
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adj.
anheimelnd adj.
wunderlich adj.

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