Pronunciation: id-I-o-syn-cra-sy
Definition: a personal habit
Part of Speech: noun
Etymology: Greek
Professional Site: Necessary tinkering with the length of his run-up may not have helped, but appears to have cured him from his off-putting habit of knocking the stumps over in his delivery stride - an idiosyncrasy which latterly led to ‘Finn’s Law’, as it was dubbed, when the International Cricket Council ruled a no-ball rather than dead-ball was in order.
http://www.london24.com/sport/other/finn_out_to_find_his_form_in_time_for_ashes_1_2992717
This persons idiosyncrasy is opening eggs with his feet.
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