a short witty or satirical poem
Has your ladyship heard the epigram he wrote last week on Lady Frizzle's feather catching fire? — Sheridan
a concise, witty, and often paradoxical remark or saying
epigrammatic /-ʹmatik/ adj
epigrammatical /-ʹmatikl/ adj
epigrammatically /-ʹmatikli/ adv
epigrammatist noun
[Middle English epigrame via Latin from Greek epigramma, from epigraphein to write on, inscribe, from epi- + graphein to write]