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squib |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Squib \Squib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squibbed}; p. pr & vb n. {Squibbing}.] To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as to squib a little debate. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Squib \Squib\, n. [OE. squippen swippen, to move swiftky, Icel. svipa to swoop, flash, dart, whip; akin to AS swipian to whip, and E. swift, a. See {Swift}, a.] 1. A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. --Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. --Blackstone. 2. (Mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse. 3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay. Who copied his squibs, and re["e]choed his jokes. --Goldsmith. 4. A writer of lampoons. [Obs.] The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers. --Tatler. 5. A paltry fellow. [Obs.] --Spenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: squib n : a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
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