intransitive. To make a quip or quips; to be wittily sarcastic. Also with †at, with.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > be sarcastic [verb (intransitive)] (6) quip1542 intransitive. To make a quip or quips; to be wittily sarcastic. Also with †at, with. slent1567 To make sly hits or gibes. Obsolete. quib1580 transitive. To taunt (a person), to make the object of a jibe or jibes. Also intransitive: to direct a jibe at a person. Cf. quip, v. 2a. Obsolete… to crack wisea1774 colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to crack wise: †(a) to speak wisely or cleverly (obsolete); (b) to utter a witticism or clever remark… to wise off1943 to wise off (U.S. slang): to make wisecracks at someone. wisecrack1946 (intransitive) to make wisecracks; also transitive, with quoted words as object. |
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