overquick

adj

Etymology

From over- + quick.

  1. inherited from *gʷih₃wós
  2. inherited from *kwikwaz
  3. inherited from *kwiku
  4. inherited from cwic
  5. inherited from quik
  6. prefixed as overquick — “over + quick

Definitions

  1. Too quick

    Too quick; overly quick.

    • And Merlin answered, 'Overquick art thou / To catch a loathly plume fallen from the wing / Of that foul bird of rapine whose whole prey / Is man's good name: he never wronged his bride.
    • Then I slipped away and paid marked and honorific courtesy to Bederhof's wife and Bederhof's daughters, tall girls, not over-quick to be married, somehow quite inevitable if one considered Bederhof himself.
    • It is really, as Johnson himself saw, an elliptical expression, and was due to an overquick wit, the sire of many an Irish bull.

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