Word: quick Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic (“living, alive, active”), from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku (“alive, lively quick”), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive, lively, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”). For semantic development, compare lively. Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek (“lively, quick”), German keck (“sassy, cheeky”), Danish kvik (“lively, quick-witted, quick”), kvæg (“cattle”), Faroese kvikur (“quick”), Icelandic kvikur (“lively, quick”), Norn kvikk, hwikk (“living, swarming, teeming”), Norwegian kvikk (“quick, lively, quick-witted”), Swedish kvick (“quick, witty”), and also (from Indo-European) with Greek βίος (víos, “life”), Latin vivus (“alive”), Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój, “alive, lively, quick”), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“to feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “alive”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva. Pronunciation: /kwɪk/, [kʰw̥ɪk] 1. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. Example: I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough. Example: He's a quick runner. 2. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. Example: That was a quick meal. Example: 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. 3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. Example: You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics. 4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive. Example: My father is old but he still has a quick wit. 5. Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered. Example: She has a very quick temper. Example: He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired. 6. Alive, living. Labels: archaic Example: 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: Example: Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire. 7. At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus. Labels: archaic Example: 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. 8. Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling. Labels: archaic Example: she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours Example: Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight. 9. Flowing, not stagnant. Labels: archaic 10. Burning, flammable, fiery. Labels: archaic Example: And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs. 11. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. Labels: obsolete Example: […] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke, 12. productive; not "dead" or barren 13. Not cryptic. 14. Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress. Example: Note that quick clay is a subet of brittle material; all quick clay is brittle, but not all brittle clay is quick.) Glaciomarine clay turns into quick clay after extensive pore water leaching by ground- and rainwater.