quickie

See also: Quickie

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz
Proto-West Germanic *kwiku
Old English cwic
Middle English quyk
English quick
Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-
Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English -ie
English quickie

    From quick + -ie.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkwɪki/
    • Audio (Australia):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪki

    Noun

    quickie (plural quickies)

    1. (colloquial) Something made or done swiftly.
    2. (colloquial, by extension) A brief sexual encounter.
      Hyponym: nooner
      • 1971, Neal Cassady, The First Third, City Lights, page 136:
        We had a quickie; I didn’t come & was only telling of the future where there was better bed fucks & us living contentedly as we walked slowly across town again to her home.
      • 2005 [1994], Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89:
        Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois][sic] today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?
    3. (cricket) A fast bowler.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → German: Quickie

    Translations

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