[f. SQUIB sb. + -ERY.]
1. The writing or production of squibs; satire in the form of squibs.
1820. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), II. 115. I did not go to Reading; the squibbery there was too much to encounter.
1824. Examiner, 739/1. Some allowable squibbery was delivered in the way of a candid admission of the absence of conveniences for a stud of horses.
1834. Moore, Mem. (1856), VII. 59. The verses having been declined in the usual quarter through which I discharged my squibbery.
2. Squibs (sc. fireworks) collectively.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 57. The loyal conflagration of the arch traitor Guy Vaux,… accompanied with as much of squibbery and crackery as our boys can beg or borrow.
