quip

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quip/kwɪp/

▶noun

• 1 a witty remark.

• 2 archaic a play on words.

▶verb (quips, quipping, quipped) make a quip.

– derivatives
quipster noun.

– origin C16: perh. from L. quippe ‘indeed, forsooth’.