Quipping vbl. sb.

[f. QUIP v. + -ING¹.] The action of the vb.

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1579. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 61. Whisperings open or cloase, quippinge notorious or auricular iybinge.

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1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xi. (1632), 233. The nimble saying or wittie quipping of Arcesilaus.

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1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1007. Terambus a Satyrist, did not abstain from quipping of the Muses.

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1887. Saintsbury, Elizab. Lit., xii. (1890), 437. In contradistinction to this perpetual quipping … the general style of Fuller is … rather more modern.

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