From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Squib \Squib\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Squibbed} (skw[i^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Squibbing}.] To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little in debate. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Squib \Squib\ (skw[i^]b), noun [OE. squippen, swippen, to move swiftly, Icel. svipa to swoop, flash, dart, whip; akin to AS. swipian to whip, and E. swift, adjective See {Swift}, adjective]
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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise [also: {squibbing}, {squibbed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "squib": Atticism, agile wit, black humor, blasting cap, burlesque, cap, caricature, comedy, detonating powder, detonator, dry wit, electric detonator, esprit, exploder, farce, fulminating mercury, fuse, hatchet job, humor, imitation, irony, lampoon, malicious parody, mercury fulminate, mockery, nimble wit, parody, pasquil, pasquin, pasquinade, pastiche, percussion cap, pleasantry, poison pen, pretty wit, primacord, primer, priming, quick wit, ready wit, salt, sarcasm, satire, savor of wit, slapstick, slapstick humor, subtle wit, takeoff, travesty, visual humor, wicked imitation, wit
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