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Meaning of quimp | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
kwɪmp

Definitions

A graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.

Examples

“He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spurl that rises like heat from his head.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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