neat. [Archaic] `` The queynte ring.'' `` His queynte spear.'' --Chaucer. `` A shepherd young quaint.'' --Chapman. Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. -- Spenser . To show bow quaint an orator you are. --Shak. 3. Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a