Crossword clues for witty
witty
- Quick with a quip
- Like some of these clues
- Smart and clever
- Quick with the quips
- Quick with quips
- Amusingly clever
- Quick with the one-liners
- Quick with the bon mot
- Quick with a one-liner
- Oh so clever
- Like repartee
- Like banter
- Like a bon mot
- Good with wordplay
- Fast, in a way
- Cleverly humorous
- Cleverly funny
- Clever (repartee)
- Able to come back quickly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Witty \Wit"ty\, a. [Compar. Wittier; superl. Wittiest.] [AS. witig, wittig. See Wit, n.]
Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. [Obs.] ``The deep-revolving witty Buckingham.''
--Shak.-
Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like. ``Honeycomb, who was so unmercifully witty upon the women.''
--Addison.Syn: Acute; smart; sharp; arch; keen; facetious; amusing; humorous; satirical; ironical; taunting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wittig "clever, wise, sagacious; in one's right mind;" see wit (n.) "intellect" + -y (2). Meaning "possessing sparkling wit" is recorded from 1580s. Related: Wittily; wittiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (label en obsolete) wise, having good judgement. 2 (label en archaic) Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious. 3 clever; amusingly ingenious. 4 Full of wit. 5 Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Witty may refer to:
- Witty (surname), list of people with the name
- Witty (computer worm)
- Witty (software), a Twitter client
The Witty worm is a computer worm that attacks the firewall and other computer security products written by a particular company, Internet Security Systems (ISS) now IBM Internet Security Systems. It was the first worm to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the very pieces of software designed to enhance network security, and carried a destructive payload, unlike previous worms. It is so named because the phrase "(^.^) insert witty message here (^.^)" appears in the worm's payload.
The Witty worm incident was unique in that the worm spread very rapidly after announcement of the ISS vulnerability (a day later), and infected a much smaller and presumably harder-to-infect (because the administrators had taken security measures) host population than previous worms.
Witty is a free Twitter client for Microsoft Windows released under the open source New BSD License and powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation. Witty was developed with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend.
Witty is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Andrew Witty (born 1964), English chief executive officer and university chancellor
- Arthur Witty (1878–1969), Spanish footballer, club president and businessman
- Chris Witty (born 1975), American speed skater and racing cyclist
- George Witty (1856–1941), New Zealand Member of Parliament for Riccarton
- John Witty (1915–1990), British film and television actor
Usage examples of "witty".
In order to entice her more easily to follow my advice, I added that I was well aware of my plan being a very difficult one to carry out, and that to play successfully such a character a woman must be particularly witty.
Usually she was far ahead of him in her shrewd analysis of the astronaut program, and her witty observations on the other men of the Solid Six were startling in their perceptions.
Mademoiselle Bearn, attempting to be witty, directed her badinage against Henri, who answered, because he could not well avoid it, rather than from any inclination to notice her, whose liveliness sometimes amused, but whose conceit and insensibility often disgusted him.
He was walking by the hedge, reading, I think a brevier book with, I doubt not, a witty letter in it from Glycera or Chloe to keep the page.
She never tried to be witty when she said something of importance, but accompanied her words with a smile which imparted to them an appearance of trifling, and brought them within the understanding of all.
Some of his more witty mastectomy patients referred to the procedure as a boob job and a tummy tuck at the same time.
So upon Tuesday the 24th of May, after having been enlivened by the witty sallies of Messieurs Thornton, Wilkes, Churchill and Lloyd, with whom I had passed the morning, I boldly repaired to Johnson.
Calton palace,--the satellites of the heir apparent, the brave, the witty, and the gay,--the soul-inspiring, mirthful band, whose talents gave a splendid lustre to the orb of royalty, far surpassing the most costly jewel in his princely coronet.
But the brightest, raciest, wittiest, liveliest, spunkiest of all the youths was Daniel Sargent Curtis, one of the race of that name so well known in Boston for excellence in various departments.
I was prepared to be snarly in a provocative and sexy way, provided I could manage my smiling and witty quarrelsomeness within acceptable limits.
Kendall found Starr smooth, witty, polished, hardly a Republican zealot.
Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The lark into the trammel net: Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade To take the precious pheasant made: Thy lime-twigs, snares, and pit-falls then To catch the pilfering birds, not men.
She had the rare and unwomanlike art of witty description, though it assorted badly with her tragic face and unsmiling eyes.
Rocking and swiveling, the justices would perform a rite of aerobic listening to the advocates or one another, as the more theatrical among them, particularly Justice Fini, launched brainteasers and witty remarks at the embattled advocates.
English Casanova in a dress worthy of the wonderful and witty original.