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To quip is to say something short, clever, and — a little joke or a sharp, light remark, often in passing. ‘“I’m early,” she quipped, walking in an hour late.’ The same word is a noun: a quip is that remark itself. It is lighter than an insult and quicker than a story; if the line is mean, we are already next door to a barb or a dig. People quip in conversation, in captions, in speeches that want a smile. It is not a formal verb. You can quip about a situation; you do not usually quip a long explanation.
說俏皮話；打趣（也可當名詞：一句妙語）
組成From a shortening of earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe, ‘indeed’, ultimately quid, ‘what’. The ‘perhaps’ belongs in the history: the Latin link is likely, not a sure classroom fact.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
quipnoun/kwɪp/
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A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
- Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
- He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.
quipverb/kwɪp/
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To make a quip.
- In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughingly quips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit.
- Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives."
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To taunt; to mock with quips.
- the more he laughs, and does her closely quip
- He did not really mind being quipped; the city gentlemen made him used to that sort of thing.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。