Meaning of Quip | Babel Free
kwɪpEquivalents
Examples
“Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.”
“He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.”
“He wrote it down, remembering a quip of Pym's, paraphrased from Clemenceau: "Military intelligence has as much to do with intelligence as military music has to do with music.””
“Nobody could ever be bothered to imagine⟳ the Sand Snakes beyond personalized weaponry and fake-aggressive quips, none of which were very convincing, and now they don’t even register⟳ as dead weight.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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