Etymology

quickie

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Today it means: Something made or done swiftly. Full definition →

English quick ← Middle English quyk ← Old English cwic
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gʷih₃wós
  3. Proto-Germanic*kwikwaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*kwiku
  5. Old Englishcwic
  6. Middle Englishquyk
  7. Englishquick
  8. English todayquickie

From quick + -ie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.