quaint /kweɪnt/adjective 5noun 1forms 3 adjective5 •Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me. — 1815 •(dialect) Strange or odd; unusual.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 […]. — 1596 •(no longer used) Of a person: cunning, crafty.But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are. — 1591 •(no longer used) Cleverly made; artfully contrived.describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […]. — 1667 •(no longer used) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.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 […]. — 1590 noun1 •(no longer used, historical) The vulva.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.’ — 2003 formsquaints · quainter · quaintest
