quip

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 kwĭp

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
    — Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
动词 v.
  1. To make a quip. intransitive
    — In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughingly quips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit.
  2. To taunt; to mock with quips. transitive
    — the more he laughs, and does her closely quip

词形变化

quips plural quips present,singular,third-person quipping participle,present quipped participle,past quipped past

词汇关系

衍生词
quipper quippingly

词源

词源 1
From a shortening of earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe (“indeed”), ultimately quid (“what”).
词源 2
From a shortening of earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe (“indeed”), ultimately quid (“what”).
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