overquick
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From over- + quick.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over