Quickname

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  A surname.

quickadj/kwɪk/

• 1

  Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

  • I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
  • He's a quick runner.
• 2

  Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

  • That was a quick meal.
  • Veronica Ripley, 32, often speaks to friends about the role that video games played in her trans awakening: “I would try to explain it away, saying that I was playing the girl character because she had a smaller hitbox or quicker kill animations,” she said, referring to in-game advantages.
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  Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

  • You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
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  Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

  • My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
• 5

  Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

  • She has a very quick temper.
  • He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
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  archaicAlive, living.

  • I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:
  • Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
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  archaicAt the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.

  • Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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  archaicPregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

  • she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
  • Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight.

quickadv/kwɪk/

• 1

  Quickly, in a quick manner.

  • Get rich quick.
  • Come here, quick!
• 2

  Answer quickly.

  • Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?

quicknoun/kwɪk/

• 1

  Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

• 2

  Plants used in making a quickset hedge

  • The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
• 3

  The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

  • This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
  • How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
• 4

  archaicSynonym of living (“those who are alive”).

  • the quick and the dead
• 5

  Quitchgrass.

  • Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks
• 6

  ball-gamescricketgamesA fast bowler.

quickverb/kwɪk/

• 1

  To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

• 2

  archaicTo quicken.

  • I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.