wit
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wit englanniksi
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The senses.
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
Intelligence; common sense.
(RQ:Wakefield Mystery Plays)
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
Humour, especially when clever or quick.
(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity). Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
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(RQ:Fry Liar) the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the centre of town’ (..)
A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
(RQ:Jonson Poetaster) Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / ''Hiſt''''rio''. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in ''Rome''. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / ''Tucca''. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: (..)
(RQ:Swift Gulliver) here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; (..)
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(RQ:KJV)
{{quote-text|en|year=1849|author=Dante Gabriel Rossetti|title=St. Luke the Painter|lines=5–8
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white (gloss)
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(alternative form of)
legally obtained by having paid the appropriate taxes
having a relatively light skin colour
clear-lighted, not dark at all
white (qualifier)
(''short for (m)'')
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(cln) eight
pale (of skin)
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we two
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to leave
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