squiblet
nounEtymology From squib + -let.
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Diminutive Diminutive of squib.
- As we have just seen, the very reverse of the statement made by Campbell and endorsed and repeated by Dixon or Doran is the fact—the literary career of John Davies began when he was about twenty-three, by the production of “Orchestra” and the composition of squiblets of fun called “Epigrams.”1872, “Metaphysics in Poetry. Sir John Davies. Author of “Orchestra,” “Nosce Teipsum,” &c.”, in The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, London: Houlston and Sons, […], pages 402–403:
- There were a few squibs thrown at position. But there were whole armfuls of personal squiblets. “I’m sure she's a poor piece of goods; her nose is like a bit of bleached putty,” said Miss Flask, a middle-aged young lady, whose own nose was as blue as a bilberry. “I think she must be deaf, she has such almost invisible ears,” chimed in Miss Flapper; […]1874 October, J. H. Wheatley, “The Legend of Ravensholm”, in The Dublin University Magazine. A Literary and Political Journal., volume LXXXIV, number DII, Dublin: George Herbert, […]; London: Hurst & Blackett; Melbourne, Vic.: George Robertson, chapter XXX, page 458, column 2:
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- They broke them against the brass collar button of the orator, and they ran down in graceful little brooklets and rivulets and squiblets and driblets over his white lawn tie and boiled shi[rt.]1881, Bill Nye [i.e., Edgar Wilson Nye], “An Anti-Mormon Town”, in Bill Nye and Boomerang; or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems, Chicago, Ill.: Belford, Clarke, & Co., page 283:
- Careful notation of the “haps” and pointers and “squiblets,” small per item, but you read them quickly.1914, J[ohn] L[icinius] E[verett] Peck, O[tto] H[illock] Montzheimer, William J. Miller, “The Press”, in Past and Present of O’Brien and Osceola Counties, Iowa, volume I, Indianapolis, Ind.: B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., page 288:
- SQUIBLETS FROM THE ANNISTON CONVENTION1914, Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Alabama Pharmaceutical Association, volume 33, page 15:
- Since our last bunch of squiblets Roy Jenkins, night foreman of the Free Press, has joined the ranks of the benedicts.1914, The Typographical Journal, volume 45, Indianapolis, Ind.: International Typographical Union, page 254, column 2: