quick
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quick/kwɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 moving fast or doing something in a short time.
■ lasting a short time.
■ prompt.
- 2 intelligent.
■ (of one's eye or ear) alert.
- 3 (of a person's temper) easily roused.
- 1 (the quick) the tender flesh below the growing part of a fingernail or toenail.
■ the central or most sensitive part of someone or something.
- 2 (as pl. n. the quick) archaic those who are living.
– phrases
cut someone to the quick cause someone deep distress.
quick and dirty informal, chiefly US done or produced hastily.
a quick one informal a rapidly consumed alcoholic drink.
quick with child archaic at a stage of pregnancy when the fetus can be felt to move.
cut someone to the quick cause someone deep distress.
quick and dirty informal, chiefly US done or produced hastily.
a quick one informal a rapidly consumed alcoholic drink.
quick with child archaic at a stage of pregnancy when the fetus can be felt to move.
– derivatives
quickly adverb,
quickness noun.
quickly adverb,
quickness noun.
– origin OE cwic, cwicu ‘alive, animated, alert’, of Gmc origin.
'quick' also found in these Oxford entries:
acumen
- alert
- apt
- beetle
- bite
- bob
- bookmark
- bop
- Bren gun
- bright
- cabaletta
- catchpenny
- chatter
- chopstick
- clever
- comeback
- courante
- cyanoacrylate
- dab
- dance
- deft
- dekko
- dodge
- double-click
- double quick
- duck
- expeditious
- fast food
- fiery
- fix
- flame
- flick
- flicker
- flinch
- flip
- flirt
- fly
- fouetté
- foxtrot
- fugitive
- getaway
- grab
- hasten
- hasty
- hothead
- hot key
- impression
- incisive
- instant
- jab
