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quipped

quipped is the simple past and past participle of quip.

Meaning of quip

Verb

quip (third-person singular simple present quips, present participle quipping, simple past and past participle quipped)

  1. (intransitive) 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.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club
    Synonyms:
    scintillate
  2. (transitive) To taunt; to mock with quips.
    • the more he laughs, and does her closely quip1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about quipped

What is quipped the simple past and past participle of?
Quipped is the simple past and past participle of quip.

Words near quipped in the dictionary

  1. quipocamayoc
  2. quipocamayocs
  3. Quipolly
  4. quipos
  5. Quipot
  6. quipped
  7. quipper
  8. quipperies
  9. quippers
  10. quippery
  11. quippet

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