different between quip vs quipu

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

Alternative forms

• khipu
• quipo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quipu, from Cusco-Collao Quechua khipu (“knot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ki.pu/

Noun

quipu (plural quipus)

1. A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.

Translations

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish quipu, from Quechua khipu (“knot”).

Noun

quipu n (definite singular quipuet, indefinite plural quipu, definite plural quipua)

1. quipu

   Synonym: knuteskrift

References

• “quipu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

From Cusco-Collao Quechua khipu (“knot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kipu/, [?ki.pu]

Noun

quipu m (plural quipus)

1. quipu