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wit 1. the talent or quality of using unexpected associations between contrasting or disparate words or ideas to make a clever humorous effect 2. speech or writing showing this quality 3. a person possessing, showing, or noted for such an ability, esp in repartee How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Voltairean wit vas found as "delightful in this as in the last century. But earrings of gold and emerald still clung to the withered ears, and the hair, two-thirds of a fathom long, a shimmering silk of golden floss, flowed from the scalp that covered what had once been the wit and will of her that Bashti reasoned had in her ancient time been quick with love in the arms of man. And he smiled so pleasantly at his own wit that the provinces of Ghargaroo, M'gwana, and Scowow were affected with a blight. |
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