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Definition: Quickie |
QuickieNoun1. Hurried repair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Czech (rychlovka ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: QuickieSynonyms: band aid (n), quick fix (n), quicky (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Quickie |
| Specialty definitions using "quickie": geochemical exploration. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Quickie (1970) The Quickie (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Quickie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Quickie" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "quickie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjë e bërë shpejt e shpejt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كأس سريع, نيكة سريعة, سؤال سريع, ضربة سريعة (flirt), شىء يؤدى بسرعة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нещо кратко (short), набързо направено нещо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 匆匆制成的劣". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rychlovka, panák (dram, dummy, puppy, short, snorter, stooge, tot), kvaltovka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چیزیکه بسرعت انجام شود. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | question éclair, pot pris en vitesse, coup rapide, chose faite en vitesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Quizfrage, Schnäpschen (bracer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καμωμένο γρήγορα, προχειροδουλειά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összetákolt (lashed-together, makeshift, quicky), gyorsan lehörpintett ital, fércmű (patchwork, quicky), felületesen megcsinált dolog (quicky), gyors dugás, gyors numera, összecsapott (lashed-together, quicky, rough and ready), gyorsan összeütött dolog (lash-up, quicky), villámsztrájk (quicky), gyorsan megcsinált dolog (quicky), gyorstalpaló tanfolyam (crash-course, quicky), megcsonkított műsor (quicky), sebtében összeütött mű (quicky), sebtében készült (quicky), tákolmány (botch, lash-up, machination, patchwork, quicky), gyors puszi (quicky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickiequay rasol, lucru de mântuialã (bungle). (various references) халтура (bust, hackwork, potboiler, schlock, trash). (various references) nešto što se brzo radi. (various references) cosa hecha rápidamente. (various references) snabbis, snabb fråga, drink i all hast. (various references) สิ่งที่ใช้เวลาสั้น (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), การ"ื่มอย่างเร็ว, การมีเพศสัมพันธ์อย่างเร็ว. (various references) kısa süren seks, kısa metrajlı film (short), hafifmeşrep kadın, bir dikişte içilen içki, şipşak (instantaneous, quick, quickly, snap), çabuk yapılan şey, çabucak yapılan şey. (various references) халтура (bungling, hackwork, potboiler, slapdash, snobbery, trash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quickie": quickies. (additional references) | |
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"Quickie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kubicki, musickie, quacky, quickey, quicky, quikee, Quixis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quickie" (pronounced kwi"kē) |
| 3 | -i" k ē | Dickey, Dickie, dicky, Hickey, Mickey, picky, Rickey, sticky, tricky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-k-q-u" | |
-2 letters: quick. | |
-3 letters: cuke. | |
-4 letters: cue, ecu, ice, ick, kue, uke. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-k-q-u" | |
+1 letter: quickies. | |
+2 letters: quicklime. | |
+3 letters: quickening, quicklimes. | |
+4 letters: quicksilver. | |
+5 letters: quicksilvers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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