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quimp

/kwɪmp/

quimp noun: a graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.

Noun

quimp (plural quimps)

  1. A graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.
    • He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spurl that rises like heat from his head.1995 February 21, William H[oward] Gass, “Culp”, in The Tunnel, Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 159

Forms of quimp

pluralquimps

Words that rhyme with quimp

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Questions about quimp

What does quimp mean?
Quimp means a graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.
What part of speech is quimp?
Quimp is a noun.
How do you pronounce quimp?
Quimp is pronounced /kwɪmp/.
What is the plural of quimp?
The plural of quimp is quimps.

Words near quimp in the dictionary

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  4. quimioluminiscence
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  8. Quimper ware
  9. Quimperware
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