wisecracking

Updated: May 7, 2025

There was a great deal of wisecracking about Al Devis buying himself a ringside seat for the fire he'd started. Then I saw Cesário Vieira and joined him. "Have all the fire you want, for a while?" I asked him. "Brother, and how! We could have used a little of this over on Hermann Reuch's Land, though. Have you seen Tom around anywhere?" "No. Have you?" "I saw him over there, about an hour ago.

H. Beam Piper - Four-Day Planet

Then he groaned, the rueful twinkle still in his eye: "I'm afraid we're in for a lot of gruesome kidding. Why, last night, in the club car of my train, three tables of bridge players could scarcely play a hand for wisecracking about the dangers of being dummy!... Well, boy, now that I've talked myself past the worst shock, suppose you give me the low-down.

Anne Austin - Murder at Bridge