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  • witty — witty, humorous, facetious, jocular, jocose are comparable when they apply to persons and their utterances and mean provoking or intended to provoke laughter or smiles. Witty (compare WIT) suggests a high degree of cleverness and quickness in… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Witty — Wit ty, a. [Compar. {Wittier}; superl. {Wittiest}.] [AS. witig, wittig. See {Wit}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. [Obs.] The deep revolving witty Buckingham. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Witty — bezeichnet: Witty Wurm, Computer Schadsoftware Chris Witty (* 1975), US amerikanische Eisschnellläuferin Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben Wort bezeichneter Begriffe …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • witty — [wit′ē] adj. wittier, wittiest [ME witti < OE wittig < wit, knowledge: see WIT1] 1. having, showing, or characterized by wit; cleverly amusing 2. Now Dial. intelligent; clever wittily adv. wittiness n. SYN. WITTY …   English World dictionary

  • witty — index jocular Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • witty — O.E. wittig clever, wise; see WIT (Cf. wit) (n.) intellect + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning possessing sparkling wit is recorded from 1580s …   Etymology dictionary

  • witty — [adj] funny and clever amusing, bright, brilliant, campy*, crazy*, diverting, droll, entertaining, epigrammatic, facetious, fanciful, gay, humorous, ingenious, intelligent, jocose, jocular, joshing, keen, lively, original, penetrating, piercing,… …   New thesaurus

  • witty — ► ADJECTIVE (wittier, wittiest) ▪ showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humour. DERIVATIVES wittily adverb wittiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • Witty-Wurm — Der Witty Wurm ist ein Computerwurm, der sich ab dem 19. März 2004 im Internet verbreitete, mittlerweile aber nicht mehr in the wild vorzukommen scheint. Der Wurm ist auch unter dem Namen Blackworm bekannt. In Malware Datenbanken ist er meist… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Witty (computer worm) — The Witty worm is a computer worm that attacks the firewall and other computer security products written by a particular company, Internet Security Systems (ISS). It was the first worm to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the very pieces of… …   Wikipedia

  • witty — adjective (wittier; est) Date: before 12th century 1. archaic having good intellectual capacity ; intelligent 2. amusingly or ingeniously clever in conception or execution < the costumes are sumptuous and witty Virgil Thomson > < the musical… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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