wit-cracking

adjective

Wisecracking; making jokes or witty comments.

Meanings

adjectivewit-cracking (comparative more wit-cracking, superlative most wit-cracking)

comparative more wit-cracking · superlative most wit-cracking

  1. Wisecracking; making jokes or witty comments.

    another wit-cracking divine, then well known in Penzance

    1870, William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, page 166
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