witticism
31wit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Cleverness Nouns 1. wit, wittiness; Atticism; salt; sense of humor, funny bone, esprit, point, fancy, whim, humor, drollery, pleasantry; comedy; jocularity, jocosity, jocoseness; levity, facetiousness;… …
32joke — joke, jest, jape, quip, witticism, wisecrack, crack, gag are comparable when they mean a remark, story, or action intended to evoke laughter. Joke, when applied to a story or remark, suggests something designed to promote good humor and… …
33Russian jokes — ( ru. анекдоты (transcribed anekdoty), literally anecdotes) the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line. Russian joke culture features a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar… …
34Spanish Baroque literature — is the literature written in Spain during the Baroque.The literary Baroque took place in Spain in the middle of the so called Spanish Golden Age of Spanish Literature. Spain was governed in that period by Philip II, Philip III and Philip IV, the… …
35epigram — /ep i gram /, n. 1. any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed. 2. epigrammatic expression: Oscar Wilde had a genius for epigram. 3. a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a… …
36humour — /hyooh meuhr/, n., v.t., Chiefly Brit. humor. Usage. See or1. * * * I (Latin; fluid ) In early Western physiological theory, one of the four body fluids thought to determine a person s temperament and features. As hypothesized by Galen, the four… …
37bon mot — noun /bɔ̃ mɔ/ A clever saying, phrase or witticism; often, a witty riposte in dialogue. Syn: witticism, quip, remark, repartee …
38crack — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. pop, rend, explode, bang; crackle; break, split, burst, cleave, fracture, crush; informal, fail, bust, break down. n. snap, break, fracture; crevice, crackle, craze, chink, flaw, cleft, rift, rent …
39epigram — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. aphorism, bon mot, saying, maxim. See wit. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. witticism, quip, aphorism, bon mot; see joke 2 , motto , saying . See Synonym Study at saying . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n.… …
40funny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. amusing, droll, comic; absurd, laughable, mirth provoking, ludicrous; informal, strange, odd; ( pl.) comics. See wit, absurdity. Ant., unfunny. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Stirring to laughter] Syn.… …
