What is "quip"

Usage examples of "quip".

It was a striking intellectual face, full of wiry lines, physiognomical quips and cranks, that gave it great character.

It was Professor Wyllie who did most of the talking, making mild little quips about her disastrous walk, pithy remarks about the abominable weather, and a rather rambling discourse about electronics, which as far as she could make out had nothing to do with anyone present.

When one tired of laughing at the Prince, one could always nip into the next saloon to hear Beau Brummell exchange quips with his new protege.

She walked up and down the garden, and her quips so bloodied Norbert, the Marquis de Croisenois, de Caylus, de Luz, and several other young men who had dined with the de La Moles, that she finally drove them away.

Courier office, and even the Rabelaisian quip which Charles Lamb throws at it in the above-quoted letter to Manning, are sufficient indications of his state at this time.

I should have considered that if it had not been for those quips and cranks which made me hate him on the third day, I should have thought him wholly sublime.

Fool valiant and wise, a maker of songs, of quips and quiddities many and jocund, Joconde hight.

I can see the headlines in Blick or some other scandal sheet: CHAIN OF KILLINGS EXCITING, QUIP BERN AUTHORITIES.

I guess you could tell all that tanned skin and rippling muscles were making me nervous," Casshe quipped in a conversational tone.

Non-Cuban Hispanics voted for Gore by 75 percent, contravening Milton Himmelfarb’s famous quip that Jews live like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.

The quip provoked another outburst of laughter which this time Bautista allowed to continue.

Bushka laughed at the quip, a laugh with a dry, cracked edge that set Twisp's anger near the boiling point.

It was said that he could turn a funeral procession into a conga line, and, although there is no evidence to show that he ever took advantage of this particular gift, he was never short of a jocular quip or two as he slipped a few duff sprouts into a customers carrier-bag.

His quips, his cool, casual manner, his lack of awe for coronals and pontifexes, his ability, even at ten, to look out for himself.

Powers and Dominations sat at feast in the ghostly remembrance of what had once been a seventeenth-century eating place, The Three Gables, sharing secrets in loud, carrying voices and deciding men's fates with a laugh and a shrug and a careless quip.