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колкость nstresses
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
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: 44 phrases in 10 subjects
Australian1
Figure of speech1
Forestry2
General27
Humorous / Jocular1
Makarov6
Nautical1
Obsolete / dated1
Slang3
Vulgar1

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