quip
Word family adjectivequippishnounquipquipster
quip /kwɪp/ verb (quipped, quipping) [transitiveT] JOKEto say something clever and amusing 说俏皮话,说妙语 ‘Giving up smoking is easy, ’ he quipped. ‘I’ve done it hundreds of times.’ “戒烟很容易啊,”他风趣地说,“我已经戒过几百次了。”
► see thesaurus at comment Origin quip (1500-1600) Perhaps from Latin quippe “certainly, indeed”, from quid “what”