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Quib vs Guib - What's the difference?

quib | guib |

As nouns the difference between quib and guib

is that quib is a quip or gibe while guib is a West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground; the harnessed antelope.

quib

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A quip or gibe.
    • He was full of joke and jest / But all his merry quibs are o'er — Tennyson.

    guib

    English

    Alternative forms

    * guiba

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus ), marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground; the harnessed antelope.
  • * 1835 , Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history
    • The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.
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