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Quip   /kwɪp/   Listen
noun
Quip  n.  
1.
A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe. "Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles." "He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er."
2.
A short humorous or witty comment or observation, usually spontaneously formed in response to a prior comment.


verb
Quip  v. t.  (past & past part. quipped; pres. part. quipping)  To taunt; to treat with quips. "The more he laughs, and does her closely quip."


Quip  v. i.  To scoff; to use taunts.





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"Quip" Quotes from Famous Books



... tome, Book, writing, compilation, work Attend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a quip, a quirk. ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams
... a constraint upon the company this evening. Robin spoke of his ride, of things which he had seen upon it, of a wood that should be thinned next year; and Anthony made a quip or two such as he was accustomed to make; but the master sat silent for the most part, speaking to the lads once or twice for civility's sake, but no more. And presently silences began to fall, that were ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson
... breaks through the bars and dashes into the scene of refinement with merry quip and jest to the confusion of his relatives and the ill-concealed amusement ...
— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart
... the cant and quip of schools, Uncouth, if only city ways refine; Ungodly, if 'tis creeds that make divine; In station poor, as judged by human rules, And yet a giant towering o'er them all; Clean, strong in mind, just, merciful, sublime; The noblest product ...
— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various
... of the Critic contains some quip or satire at the expense of James Kirke Paulding, and his "Backwoodsman" is particularly levelled at. Paulding is dubbed "The Cabbage Bard," and the caustic reviewer proceeds to write: "We had a Dennie and ...
— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth


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