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quipping

quipping is the present participle and gerund 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 quipping

What is quipping the present participle and gerund of?
Quipping is the present participle and gerund of quip.

Words near quipping in the dictionary

  1. quippier
  2. quippiest
  3. quippily
  4. quippiness
  5. quippinesses
  6. quipping
  7. quippingly
  8. quippish
  9. quippishness
  10. quippu
  11. quippus

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