Quip vs Quop - What's the difference?
quip | quop |
A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
* Milton
* Tennyson
To make a quip.
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To taunt; to treat with quips.
* Spenser
to throb or beat
:*1922': His heart '''quopped softly. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
As verbs the difference between quip and quop
is that quip is to make a quip while quop is to throb or beat.As a noun quip
is a smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.quip
English
Noun
(en noun)- Quips , and cranks, and wanton wiles.
- He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
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- the more he laughs, and does her closely quip