Quib vs Rejoinder - What's the difference?
quib | rejoinder |
(archaic) A quip or gibe.
(legal) defendant's answer to the replication.
A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty; especially an answer to a reply.
* 1919 ,
*:"I'm starting to-morrow. This is perhaps the last time we shall ever meet."
*:I made an appropriate rejoinder , and he smiled wanly.
(patent law) in US patent law re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.
As nouns the difference between quib and rejoinder
is that quib is (archaic) a quip or gibe while rejoinder is (legal) defendant's answer to the replication.As a verb rejoinder is
to issue a rejoinder.quib
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was full of joke and jest / But all his merry quibs are o'er — Tennyson.