[f. QUIRK v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the vb. in its various senses, or the result of this.
a. 1688. Bunyan, Mr. Badman (1767), I. 735. Forbear quirking and mocking.
1820. Shelley, Œd. Tyr., I. 254. If you had hung her With canting and quirking.
1892. Amélie Rives, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 411/1. Ed. What! in all—In all uncomely? Ath. Ay, to the very quirking of her eyebrows.
