wit-cracking

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English

Adjective

wit-cracking (comparative more wit-cracking, superlative most wit-cracking)

  1. wisecracking; making jokes or witty comments
    • 1870, William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, page 166:
      another wit-cracking divine, then well known in Penzance