quirt

1. 1.

   whip with a leather thong at the end

   Broaderwhip

Other forms of quirt

plural

quirts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quirt

What does quirt mean?

quirt means "whip with a leather thong at the end".

How many syllables are in quirt?

quirt has 1 syllable: quirt.

Is quirt a common word?

quirt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.