quipn.
/kwɪp/, U.S. /kwɪp/ 1.
a. Originally: a sharp, sarcastic, or cutting remark, esp. one cleverly or wittily phrased. Later more generally: any clever, witty, or humorous remark; a witticism, an epigram.Frequently in combination with crank in allusion to quot. 1645; cf. crank n.2 3.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [noun] > instance of
gesta1387
quippy1519
quip1532
irony1534
nip1549
taunta1566
slent?1567
gamegall1577
yark1577
veny1586
jerk1590
wipe1596
glance1602
satire1606
by-wipe1641
quib1656
trait1704
skit1727
slant1825
ironism1842
wiper1846
by-quip1855
satirization1868
snapper1890
crack1896
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > instance of > sharp
quippy1519
quip1532
snack?1554
gird1566
pincha1568
quib1656
hitc1668
snapper1817
shy1840
shot1841
swipe1892
jab1905
licks1971
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > [noun] > instance of
quippy1519
quip1532
taunta1566
slent?1567
wipe1596
quib1656
trait1704
slant1825
wisecrack1924
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > instance of
crank1594
wits, fits, and fancies1595
jerk1598
quirk1600
tongue-squib1628
dictery1632
repartee1637
quip1645
good thing1671
bon mot1735
a play on (also upon) words1761
sally1781
wordplay1794
southboarda1805
mot1813
smartism1830
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 709/2 With this goodly quyppe agaynste me.
1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes iii. ii. sig. C3 Psyllus Whats a quip? Manes We great girders call it a short saying of a sharp witte, with a bitter sense in a sweete word.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 31 Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 351 This by a military jest, and facetious quip, they called the Commonwealth.
1755 S. Derrick Coll. Orig. Poems 195 Till each man has a swill, You have seldom a quip, or a crank heard; Nay even dull cits, Will brighten their wits, With two or three pulls—at a tankard.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 472 Direct me to a quip Or merry turn in all he [sc. Paul] ever wrote.
1813 H. Cowley More Ways than One Ded. f. B2 The laughing Muse in sprightliest vein was by, And quips and cranks lay lurking in her eye.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xliv. 290 The whole conversation is..a hailstorm of short stories, quips, and retorts.
1855 A. Manning Old Chelsea Bun-house xvi. 274 She..gave him back quip for crank.
1921 Times 28 Mar. 6/2 Quips and cranks about Bolshevism..are all very well in revue; in a charming little comedy they seem strangely out of place.
1946 M. Sandoz in Amer. Speech 21 234/1 Any quip or joke of that nature was called corny.
2004 G. R. Wainwright Headless Chickens, Laidback Bears i. i. 10 As the old quip has it, the best way to knock a chip off a person's shoulder is to pat them on the back.
b. A verbal equivocation; a quibble; a subtle or cunning argument. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [noun]
quiddity1539
quibc1540
quibibec1540
quirk1565
quillity1573
quid1576
quillet1576
quipa1592
quiddit1592
quidlit1598
quibibble1606
punctual1610
quidlibet1611
catasophistrya1614
quibbling1633
Scotism1645
quibble1650
thingum1672
quoddity1682
scruple1713
baffle1783
nit1982
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F2 These schollers knowes..How to vse quips and sleights of Sophistrie.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier 43 These lawyers have such dilatory and foreign pleas,..such quips and quiddits.
1764 W. Guthrie Reply to Counter-address 34 What a pretty string of quips and quiddities has my delicate adversary introduced?
1812 J. Jebb Let. 22 Aug. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 95 The practical goodness may be readily overlooked, whilst theological quips and quiddities may be fastened on.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvii. 264 I will not..entrap you by quips and special pleading.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 64 Tricks of controversy and quips of law.
1931 T. R. Glover in tr. Tertullian Apol. de Spectaculis p. xvi Every page shows the practised speaker, with every lawyer's trick, tu quoque, ad hominem, the quibble and quip of the debater.
2. † a. An odd or curious small object; a knick-knack. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > fantastic or affected
conceit1463
fangle1583
crotchet1611
foppery1711
whigmaleery1793
quipa1822
dandification1827
fandangle1835
fandango1856
a1822 P. B. Shelley Let. to — in Posthumous Poems (1824) 61 Upon the table More knacks and quips there be than I am able To catalogize.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 227 The quips and quiddities of these degenerate days, little bits of riband, and pasteboard, and gilt paper.
b. An odd or curious action or characteristic; a peculiarity of character or behaviour. Now rare.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim > capricious action
conceitc1520
giddiness1593
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
tricka1616
vagary1711
cantrip1719
quipa1822
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas li, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 46 Many quips and cranks She played upon the water.
a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 136 His manner was full of quirks and quips.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People ix. 75 All the quips and turns and oddities of human nature.
1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Feb. c3 He [sc. Bellow] nevertheless continues to cast a cool and amused eye on the quips and cranks of American life.
Derivatives
ˈquipful adj. = quippish adj.; also in extended use.
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1866 Galaxy 15 Oct. 367 The quipful melody of the mocking-bird.
1925 Glasgow Herald 7 Mar. No verbal rigadoon, With rattling rhymes replete—No quipful, quaint lampoon, Was that inspired conceit!
1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 Oct. d3 William F. Buckley Jr., the quipful conservative columnist, was on the witness stand.
ˈquippy adj. = quippish adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective]
satiric1509
satirien1509
satiricala1529
ironical1536
dry1542
Lucianical1561
satirial1579
sardonian1586
ironized1596
sarcasmical1602
ironic1614
Sardinian?1615
sardoin1633
sardonic1638
sarcastical1641
sardan1649
sarcasmous1663
sarcastic1695
witty1700
sarcasmatical1716
caustic1771
nippit1808
Lucianic1820
sardonican1837
quippy1859
sardonical1859
quipsome1881
sarky1912
Lucianesque1969
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [adjective]
snip-snap1673
quippish1817
quippy1859
quipsome1881
smart-mouthed1967
zinging1972
1859 W. Chadwick Life De Foe vii. 372 As a writer, he was a quippy slack-wire performer.
1963 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 3 Nov. He is a randy character with a quippy tongue.
2006 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 18 Apr. 1 c They've hired the quippy king of makeover shows, Carson Kressley, to work the room during Friday's telecast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
quipv.
/kwɪp/, U.S. /kwɪp/ 1. intransitive. To make a quip or quips; to be wittily sarcastic. Also with †at, with.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > use caustic or ironic ridicule [verb (intransitive)]
quip1542
slent1567
quib1580
quirk1596
jerk1611
ironize1638
to Lucian it1655
iron1813
skit1821
to come the acid1917
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (intransitive)] > severely
quip1542
snap1579
quib1580
to lash out1884
slam1884
to rip into——1907
to lace into1908
to light into ——1922
to give (make, have, etc.) grief1974
excoriate1985
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > be sarcastic [verb (intransitive)]
quip1542
slent1567
quib1580
to crack wisea1774
to wise off1943
wisecrack1946
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > be witty with words [verb (intransitive)]
to play mid wordseOE
gameOE
snip-snap1593
to play on (also upon) words (also the word)1600
quip1908
1542 [implied in: N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (Pref.) f. 7v Thei dooe plainly expresse & sette out the veraye naturall inclinacion and disposicion of eche speaker that thei procede from, briefly, finely, quippyngly, and meryly within the boundes of good maner. (at quippingly adv. at quipping adj. Derivatives)].
1578 J. Lyly Euphues To Rdrs. sig. Aiiijv The malicious haue more mynde to quippe, then might to cut.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. ix. 234 Tacitus doth pleasantly quip and jest at the men of warre of our ancient Gaules.
1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. viii. vi. 796 If you will learne..to deride, quippe, scorne,..you neede not goe to any other schooles.
1908 Smart Set June 50 Audrey in her blithesome way Would quip and jest with roguish glee.
1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road xii. 225 The educated Negro..is fighting entirely out of his class when he tries to quip with the underprivileged.
1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xii. 153 Britain no longer needs colonial administrators who can quip in Latin.
2.
a. transitive. To make (a person, group, etc.) the object of a quip or quips; (also) to bring into a particular state by quipping. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > ridicule caustically or ironically [verb (transitive)]
touch1526
jerk1565
quip1572
quirk1596
satire1602
satirize1619
sarcasmatize1716
iron1793
to wise off1943
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > sharply
touch1526
quip1572
quib1580
quirk1596
hit1843
rawhide1895
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > assail with sarcasm [verb (transitive)]
touch1526
quip1572
quib1580
flout1600
sarcasmatize1716
wisecrack1946
1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xxiv. 822 He priuily quippeth his aduersaries without all foolishe kinde of lying and flattery.
1598 in J. Stow Suruay of London 53 The boies of diuers Schooles..with Epigrams and Rymes, nipping and quipping their fellowes.
1625 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Free Schoole of Warre 56 Hee spake these expresse words to some that quipped him for this.
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 791 The Heathen quipt them that they had no Images nor Altars.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 86 If any one quipped the profession of another.
1907 Daily Chron. 18 July 4/4 They must at least be brought to understand that the deepest feelings of humanity cannot be quipped into vulgarity.
1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 164 She began to make fun of him, to quip him about his strength of will which had heretofore been so lamentably weak.
b. transitive. To say or reply as a quip. Chiefly with that-clause or direct speech as object.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > say as a quip [verb (transitive)]
quip1936
1936 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 11 June 9/7 ‘No ducky’, he quipped, ‘No joby Monday’.
1962 Times 14 June 11/2 The public quipped that the new uniform was suitable for a doorman or liftboy.
1978 Woman's Own 16 Sept. 12/1 My daughter was rather amused and quipped: ‘Most parents have problem teenagers but we have a problem mother.’
1989 L. Grant-Adamson Wild Justice 143 Whether this was, as the newsroom quipped, because it dawned on her she had nothing to do there..nobody could be certain.
2003 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 12 Dec. e 38 ‘If you've got 14 wines, what do you think, that I'm not going to play first?’ the internationally acclaimed violinist quipped.
Derivatives
ˈquipper n. [compare quipster n.] a person who makes quips.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [noun] > one who uses
quipper1589
satire1596
wit-cracker1600
wit-snapper1600
ironista1631
Lucian1752
satirizer1789
quipster1790
Lucianist1940
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > one who indulges in
quipper1589
quipster1790
persifleur1829
cross-talker1907
smart mouth1966
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > [noun] > one who uses
quipper1589
wit-cracker1600
wit-snapper1600
wisecracker1923
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. Av Here peraduenture, some desperate quipper, will canuaze my proposed comparison.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lardonneur, a quipper, girder, flowter.
1911 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 7 Dec. 6/3 The Union's quixotic quipper should be informed that, after the special session, Maine nooks will be populated to back the Bronx zoo off the map.
1991 Incentive Today Oct. 23/2 Terry, a well noted quipper, wanted to know if the cheddar..‘was a Christmas sex machine’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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