What is another word for "wit"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "wit": abridge, abridgment, abstract, abuse, accent, acrobat, ambiguity, anagram, and, antiphrasis, archaic, archaism, argot, babu, barbarism, bel, black, bon, brevity, brief, briefly, brogue, broken, buffoon, byword, call, cant, cap, caricaturist, charlatan, clinch, close, clown, coin, coiner, colloquial, colloquialism, come, comes, compact.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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