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Definition of Quipper
1. one that quips [n -S] - See also: quips
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quipper
Literary usage of Quipper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"44. The more he laughs, and does her closely QUIP. 1605. JONSON, CHAPMAN, &c., East'
ward Ho, iii. 2. Go to, old quipper ; forth with thy speech. Ibid. ..."
2. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"... the quipper of the firma- 26 partes] parties N. almanac? Br.perh. rightly 35
expect : The stair. . . hither : Who hath an (Sap/ti 3. 6 ; M.Bom. i. ..."
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