Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who affects repartee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker.
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Examples
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Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid them prepare dinner.
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"A mortal combat!" cried the cardinal's wit-snapper.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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-- Goodly lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid them prepare dinner.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid them prepare dinner.
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"No; but he has worried us, uncle; you know not what a wit-snapper it is."
The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840
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Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid them prepare dinner.
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"'No sooner, Sire,' went on the duke, 'had I entered the cell than he rushed upon me, and, it grieves me, I used the wit-snapper roughly.'
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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