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quip·ster

 (kwĭp′stər)
n.
One given to or known for making quips.
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quipster

(ˈkwɪpstə)
n
a person inclined to make sarcastic or witty remarks
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quipster

noun
A person whose words or actions provoke or are intended to provoke amusement or laughter:
Informal: card.
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quipster

nSpaßvogel m
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She catches the eye of Philip (Yousouf Sultani), a charming quipster and onetime soldier who may face competition from Zachary (Anthony Marston), a careless playboy fond of fast cars.
FEEDBACK A-F FLIGHTED D-i PARQUETS P QUIPSTER P-U A longer word is neeed for a more difficult sequence.
From Anupam Kher's slap-happy mother Bharati Achrekar (effortly replacing Leela Mishra from the original) to Goan cafe owner Rishi Kapoor's unidentifiable assistant--everyone is a certifiable quipster in the new film.
Basically unambitious, and no less a quipster than Andy, although his area of concentration is in contract law Jamie is handed a pro bono case he is ill-equipped to handle: a woman who wants to donate her heart to save her 14-year-old daughter's life, currently serving a 15-years-to-life sentence for the confessed murder of her husband.
and director Guy Ritchie also recreate old London while reinventing Arthur Conan Doyle's brainy, monkish detective as an action hero, verbal quipster -- and even a bit of a lover.
Plummer and Dennehy are given colorful backup by O'Hare, who brings an enjoyable hint of Bert Lahr and even Groucho Marx to jaded quipster Hornbeck, a showy role originated by Tony Randall on Broadway in 1955 and played by Gene Kelly in the Kramer film.
AL MCGUIRE, the late Marquette basketball coach and quipster, on former MU guard Dean Meminger: "He's as quick as the last mass at a summer resort."
In this respect he's much like his hero Billy Connolly or the American quipster Robin Williams, both of whom he lists high on the pantheon of risk taking comedy.
Resolving to "challenge" Claudio (4.1.331), Benedick proves he is no Rinaldo, nor even an Ariodanto, and his failure is revealingly discursive: underscoring the interjection of the heroic as some alien idiom, and underscoring the degree to which it is assumed by what Harry Berger calls the Men's Club of Messina (34) that Benedick the quipster is never fully serious, Benedick has a difficult time making his departure from levity understood by Clandio and Don Pedro, and making his challenge understood by its designated target, Claudio (5.1.143-95).