回复：Thanks.

They are used in spoken English. to quote a word or a simple phrase, normally we put quote, unquote together.
David gave a speech to the kitchen crew:
according to falsetruth, Charles is quote, unquote a dumb ass

hahaha

By the way the person (a different one) who gave me a hard time yesterday 向我检讨 today。
we have to treat them like shit in order to gain respect. Whole bunch of *****s.
haha