Quirkian adjective1 •Of or relating to Randolph Quirk (1920–2017), British linguist who championed a descriptive approach toward English grammar.Naturally, such an interpretation must remain a wholly subjective matter even if one were to follow to their logical limits the clusters of Foucauldian and Quirkian beliefs about languages[…] — 1999 formsmore Quirkian · most Quirkian