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Squib

noun

Firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise.

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"Squib" Quotes from Famous Books

... his droll imitations of the prayers of the leading professors— imitations in which their gestures, intonations, and bits of rhetoric and oratory were most ludicrously caricatured. I remembered, too, how a college pastor, a man greatly revered, was really driven out of the university pulpit by a squib in a students' paper, and how several of his successors had finally retreated into professorships in the Divinity School; and I felt that leading men coming from week to week from the outside world would be taken at the value which the outside world puts ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... bungling speeches, that democratic and sometimes noisy assembly bore from him with kindly amusement and real respect what they would bear from no one else, and he had an influence in its sometimes turbulent debates which seems unaccountable. He was the vir pietate gravis. In a once popular squib, occasioned by one of the fiercest of these debates, this unique position is noticed ...

— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church

Words linked to "Squib" : firework, pyrotechnic