Wit
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Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny. Someone witty, also known as a wit, is a person skilled at wit, making spontaneous one-line
"The feast of reason..." — James Gillray (1797)
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Wit
…witją (“knowledge, reason”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd- (“see, know”). It shares its root with "wise" and "advise". As in the wit of Dorothy Parker's set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may be intentionally cruel (as also in many epigrams), and perhaps more ingenious than funny. A quip…
Parker, c. 1910s–1920s
Cover of the first edition of Enough Rope (1926)
Plaque at Parker's birthplace