Funny and Quip

Funny

Funny noun - Something said or done to cause laughter.
Usage example: let's can the funnies—we've got serious work to do here

Quip is a synonym for funny in joke topic. In some cases you can use "Quip" instead a noun "Funny", when it comes to topics like laughter.

Nearby Words: funning, funnily

Quip

Quip noun - Something said or done to cause laughter.
Usage example: the crowd laughed aloud at the author's clever quip
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Synonyms for Quip

Funny is a synonym for quip in joke topic. You can use "Funny" instead a noun "Quip", if it concerns topics such as laughter, one-liner. informal substitute

Nearby Words: quipped, quipping

Both words in one sentence

  • Costume Test Montage He or she will often try a funny one-liner matching the costume's persona, or just as often dismiss it with a quip, usually "too butch" or "too much" (in which case the next one is "too little").
  • Series / SCTV In the film itself, the main character — a Simon Expy — makes much the same quip while trying to check into an overbooked hotel, and the staff thinks it's so funny that they find a room for him and his wife on the spot.
    Source: Series / SCTV
  • It's quite funny - every time the lookout turns around for a cigarette or quip with his mates the tank silently glides out of an alley and across the street into one on the opposite side like one of the ghosts in scooby doo.
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