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колкость n stresses
gen.	sarcasm; gibe; barb (exchange / trade barbs – обменяться колкостями readerplus); personality; sting (насмешки, эпиграммы); quip; twit; incision; spinosity; unpleasantry; acrimony; dig up; barbed remark (Anglophile); waspishness (Anglophile); vitriol (Taras); sharpness; cleavability; jeer; nip; thrust; snappy comeback (Кинопереводчик); taunt (trade taunts – обмениваться колкостями Taras); tease (Abysslooker); zinger (a clever humorous remark that might also be insulting • She opened the speech with a real zinger vogeler); dryness; keenness; pointedness; pungency; reflection; snatch; tartness; causticity; gybe
Gruzovik	biting remark; stinging remark
amer.	wisecrack (He made some wisecrack about my ​lack of ​culinary ​ability. Val_Ships)
book.	mordacity; mordancy
fig.	causticity (отвлеч. сущ. по прил. лколкий" igisheva); caustic remark (igisheva); lash; poignancy; sal; salt; wiper
Gruzovik, fig.	sharpness
inf.	dig; poisonous remark (Andrey Truhachev); stinging rebuke (Andrey Truhachev)
Makarov.	poignancy (высказывания и т.п.); point; jibe; shot
obs.	mordicancy; pungence; quib
slang	lah-di-dah (Interex)
колкости n
gen.	peppery words; barbed criticisms (denghu); biting words; paper bullets of the brain (Lyubov_Zubritskaya)
Игорь Миг	tough talk
Makarov.	barbed words; tart words
колкостями n
gen.	give-and-take

колкость : 49 phrases in 11 subjects

Australian	1
Figure of speech	1
Forestry	2
General	27
Humorous / Jocular	1
Idiomatic	5
Makarov	6
Nautical	1
Obsolete / dated	1
Slang	3
Vulgar	1