different between quimp vs quip

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quimp (plural quimps)

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

Perhaps from Latin quippe (“indeed”), ultimately quid (“what”).

quip (plural quips)

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
  Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year
  He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.

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

(intransitive) To make a quip.
(transitive) To taunt; to treat with quips.
- 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman
  He did not really mind being quipped; the city gentlemen made him used to that sort of thing.

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