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Quip vs Quippy - What's the difference?

quip | quippy |

As a noun quip

is a smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.

As a verb quip

is to make a quip.

As an adjective quippy is

joky; inclined to or characterised by quipping.

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.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • To taunt; to treat with quips.
  • * Spenser
    • the more he laughs, and does her closely quip

    quippy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Joky; inclined to or characterised by quipping.
  • * 2003 , Dorcas S Miller, More Backcountry Cooking: Moveable Feasts from the Experts
    • I usually flinch at the quippy philosophies espoused on car bumper stickers...
  • * 2008 , Pierre Dillenbourg, Times of convergence: technologies across learning contexts
    • One of them told us in a quippy comment: “we are not architects”.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 19, author=Pico Iyer, title=Rough Guide to Transformation, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Dyer’s trademark wit and uniqueness, in fact, surround you before you’ve even turned to the first page: the first half of his title, “Jeff in Venice,” at once offers a quippy come-on and announces he’s going to subvert and update the classic novella by Thomas Mann (putting the self, or anti-self, in place of death)