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Quip vs Quim - What's the difference?

quip | quim |

As nouns the difference between quip and quim

is that quip is a smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe while quim is the female genitalia; the vulva.

As a verb quip

is to make a quip.

As an adjective quim is

affectedly nice, prim.

quip

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
  • * Milton
    • Quips , and cranks, and wanton wiles.
  • * Tennyson
    • He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To make a quip.
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  • To taunt; to treat with quips.
  • * Spenser
    • the more he laughs, and does her closely quip

    quim

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.
  • * 1879 , Anonymous, " No. 1:
    • For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
    The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim .
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses , page 938:
    • Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims ?
  • * 2005 , Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights (ISBN 1419952595), page 131:
    • Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.

    Etymology 2

    . Compare English (m).

    Adjective

  • (Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.
  • (Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.

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    * (l)