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Word: quilp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms and quilp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quislers | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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