squibbern.
One who writes or utters squibs.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer > of lampoon or satire
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > squib > making of > maker of
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1810 Irish Mag. Aug. 377/1 Nothing like a squibber writing of his own acquirements.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 347 Never disturb yourself about little squibs... If you want to annoy the squibber, pretend never to have heard of them.
1863 Athenæum 11 July 45/3 Of course we speak of Hook the novelist, not of the political squibber of the John Bull.
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Baseball and American Football. A hit or kick which travels only a short distance, often as a result of being mis-struck. Cf. squib n. and squib v.
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1950 N.Y. Times 14 July 24/1 Minner drove in the first run of the inning with a squibber off Billy Cox' glove.
1969 L. Shecter Jocks v. 151 For it was Rod Kanehl who once said, Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbers go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 18 Apr. 18/4 Murray managed to hit a squibber down the third-base line and into the left-field corner.
2001 Sports Illustr. 28 Aug. 58 (caption) The image of Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner (right) allowing Mookie Wilson's squibber to dribble through his legs as the New York Mets' Ray Knight ran home with the winning run has not faded.
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