Lexicographical Neighbors of Quiblin
Literary usage of Quiblin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Eastward Ho, iii. (1 or 2) (Security) ; B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 1 (end) ; 'A
quirk or a quiblin ', id., Barth. Fair, i. ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"When a quirk or a quiblin does 'scape thee, and thou dost not watch and apprehend
it, and bring it afore the constable of conceit, ... let them carry thee ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"Mr. Punch is (in one respect only) like unto a personage in a play by BEN JONSON.
" When a quirk or quiblin does 'scape thee, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"quiblin. An attempt to deceive. QUICE. A wood-pigeon. Glouc. QUICHE. To move.
QUICK. (1) Alive; living. In thilke time men hem tok With ..."
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