Quaint
[kweynt] /kweɪnt/
adjective, quainter, quaintest.
1.
having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque:
a quaint old house.
2.
strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way:
a quaint sense of humor.
3.
skillfully or cleverly made.
4.
Obsolete. wise; skilled.
/kweɪnt/
adjective
1.
attractively unusual, esp in an old-fashioned style: a quaint village
2.
odd, peculiar, or inappropriate: a quaint sense of duty
adj.
c.1200, cointe, “cunning, ingenious; proud,” from Old French cointe “knowledgeable, well-informed; clever; arrogant, proud; elegant, gracious,” from Latin cognitus “known, approved,” past participle of cognoscere “get or come to know well” (see cognizance). Modern spelling is from early 14c.
Later in English, “elaborate, skillfully made” (c.1300); “strange and clever” (mid-14c.). Sense of “old-fashioned but charming” is first attested 1795, and could describe the word itself, which had become rare after c.1700 (though it soon recovered popularity in this secondary sense). Related: Quaintly; quaintness.
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