quib

• David Cameron said the strike was a "damp quib".

Public sector strikes - Wednesday 30 November 2011

I suppose the only remaining quib I have concerns the eternal nature of the coordinates.

Incompatible Arrows, IV: F. Scott Fitzgerald Sean 2008

I'll leave you with quick glib quib about the year 1886 instead.

Look at Leila Amanda 2006

Ex quib {us} exc {re} scens su {m} me tu iunge p {ri} ori

The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

This quib was written by a person who was among the astronomers: and it illustrates the fact that Le Verrier had sole possession of the field until

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Admonendi, Infiit.quib. mod. jus patrue fotefi, folv. & i.

Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

If he’s joking, it’s a relatively funny response to Obama’s quib about ensuing armageddon after healthcare passage.

Think Progress » Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage. 2010

“Trutta, siue ut Platina scribit Truta, siue Trotta Italicu {m} nome {n} est, à Gallis, quibus Troutte vel potius Truette, vel ab Anglis quib {us} à Trute, vel Trovvt appella {n} t, acceptum.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867