Čo znamená quip v angličtine a aká je definícia quip?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť quip výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

quip Význam & definícia

0 a humorous and clever remark:
- It was Oscar Wilde who made the famous quip about life mimicking art.
1 to make a quip:
- [ + speech ] When asked why he seemed to be so relaxed, Mr McCarthy quipped: "It's the drugs".
- "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant," Grant once quipped.
2 a quick, intelligent, and often amusing remark

He famously quipped that "con" is short for conservative.
Mark Twain once quipped that the game of golf is "a nice walk spoiled".
He often quips that his marriage has lasted so long because "we're both in love with the same fellow".
I suppose then that tenured professors get to make the best colon quips because they can afford to.
There is some truth to the quip that psychoanalytic clinicians understand the word data to be a plural of the word anecdote.
It can even be turned to wry advantage in quips that turn the homely wisecrack into a sagacious crevice.
These figures are unmistakable evidence that our production drive is increasing, and that our plans for modernising and re-quipping the fleet are producing the goods.
Instead of that we have had a series of quips on personalities.