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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 747 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SQUIB , supposed to be derived from the See also:

German word schieben, to push or shove forward with a sliding See also:

MOVEMENT

movement, the name for a projected See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of firework that is flung out of a groove and breaks with a flash and a clatter. Hence, in the See also:

LITERARY

literary sense, a squib is a slight satirical See also:

composition put forth on an occasion; and it is intended that it should make a See also:

NOISE (a word of doubtful origin; O. Fr. nogse or nose; Prov. nausa, which points to Lat. nausea, sickness, as the origin; others take Lat. noxia, harm, as the source)

noise by its See also:

EXPLOSION

explosion, not by the See also:

possession of any permanent importance. See also:

Steele says, in the Tatler, that " squibs are those who in the See also:

COMMON

common phrase of the See also:

WORLD

world are See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call'd libellers, lampooners and pamphleteers," showing that, at the beginning of the 18th.See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, the See also:

man who composed the See also:

SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire, as well as the satire itself, was called a squib See also:

Swift speaks of the rapidity with which these little literary See also:

FIREWORKS

fireworks flew about from See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place to place, and he himself was a proficient in the making of noisy squibs. Perhaps the best type of a squib in See also:

ENGLISH

English literature is See also:

Gray's See also:

CANDIDATE

Candidate, which was written and circulated among the See also:

ELECTORS (Ger. Kurfursten, from Kilren, O.H.G. kiosan, choose, elect, and Furst, prince)

electors in 1764, when See also:

Lord See also:

Sandwich was canvassing for the See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of high-steward of the university of See also:

Cambridge. The See also:

OBJECT

object of this poem was, by ridicule and See also:

DEFAMATION (from the classical Lat. diffamare, to spread abroad an evil report—the English form in de is taken from the Late Lat. defamare)

defamation, to injure Lord Sandwich's prospects of success. When once the See also:

election was over the verses served no further purpose, and they have survived simply in consequence of their fluent wit and of the reputation of the See also:

GREAT

great poet who composed them.

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