Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quickie

/ˈkwɪki/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English

Syllables: quick-ie
IPA: /ˈkwɪki/

22

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something made or done swiftly.

Colloquial

noun

A brief sexual encounter.

Colloquial

noun

Example Sentences

"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."
"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?"

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 English -ie English quickie From quick + -ie.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

quickies (plural)

Phrases

quota quickie

Synonyms

band aid quick fix quicky

Rhymes With

tricky mickey sticky nikki nicky vicky picky nicki vicki hickey niki dickie

Questions

How do you pronounce quickie?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkwɪki/.
What does quickie mean?: Something made or done swiftly.
Where does quickie come from?: 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 English -ie English quickie From quick + -ie.

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