different between quip vs quim

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kw?p, IPA^(key): /kw?p/, [k?w??p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

quip (plural quips)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:joke

Derived terms

• quipful

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To make a quip.
2. (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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Puqi

English

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

quim (plural quims)

1. (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.
   • 1879, Anonymous, "The Wanton Lass" in The Pearl No. 1:

     For one day, when amusing herself with this whim

     The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, page 938:

     Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?
2. (vulgar, derogatory) A derogatory term (see cunt).
   • 2012, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston as "Loki":

     (to Black Widow)...In every way, [ Clint Barton ] knows your fear! And then he'll wake...to see his good work...When he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots queem. Compare English queem.

Adjective

quim

1. (Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.
2. (Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.

See also

• queem