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quip

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Etymology

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From a shortening of earlierquippy, perhaps fromLatinquippe(“indeed”), ultimatelyquid(“what”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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quip (pluralquips)

  1. Asmart,sarcasticturn orjest; ataunt; a severeretort orcomeback; agibe.
    • 1645,John Milton,L'Allegro:
      Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
    • 1832 December (indicated as1833),Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, inPoems, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC:
      He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merryquips are o'er.
    • 1986,John le Carré,A Perfect Spy:
      He wrote it down, remembering aquip of Pym's, paraphrased from Clemenceau: "Military intelligence has as much to do with intelligence as military music has to do with music.”
    • 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, inThe Onion AV Club‎[1]:
      Nobody could ever be bothered to imagine the Sand Snakes beyond personalized weaponry and fake-aggressivequips, none of which were very convincing, and now they don’t even register as dead weight.

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Translations

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smart, sarcastic turn or jest

Verb

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quip (third-person singular simple presentquips,present participlequipping,simple past and past participlequipped)

  1. (intransitive) To make a quip.
    • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, inAV Club‎[2]:
      In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughinglyquips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit.
  2. (transitive) Totaunt; to treat with quips.

Translations

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to make a quip

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