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quickness
Variant of quick
quick
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quick (kwik)
adjective
- Archaic living; alive
- rapid; swift a quick walk
- done with promptness; prompt a quick reply
- acting swiftly a quick worker
- lasting only a moment a quick look
- prompt to understand or learn a quick mind
- sensitive; acutely perceptive a quick sense of smell
- easily stirred; fiery a quick temper
- sharply curved a quick turn
- Archaic pregnant
Etymology: ME quik, lively, alive < OE cwicu, living: see bio-
adverb
quickly; rapidly
noun
- the living, esp. in the quick and the dead
- the sensitive flesh under a toenail or fingernail
- the deepest feelings or sensibilities cut to the quick by the insult
transitive verb
Archaic to animate; invigorate
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