Quimp

//kwɪmp// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.

    "He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spurl that rises like heat from his head."

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"He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spurl that rises like heat from his head."

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