Speedy

Definition: Speedy

Speedy

Adjective

1. Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movment"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy".

2. Accomplished rapidly and without delay; "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "speedy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Speedy

Instantaneity

Speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift,lively, blitz; rapid (velocity).

Velocity

Adjective: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping; Verb: light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow; Noun: quick as lightning; Noun: quick as a thought.

Crosswords: Speedy

And Speedy Bob Neville -- his great legs churning goes speeding across the finish line with a three minute and fifty second mile (The Omega Man; writing credit: Richard Matheson; John William Corrington)

With Speedy Gonzales around, life would be to short to enjoy it anyway (Quacker Tracker; writing credit: Tom Dagenais; Don Jurwich)

Capulina Speedy Gonzalez (1968)

Speedy Gonzales (1955)

The Speedy Marriage (1925)

His Speedy Finish (1917)

The Fable of the Speedy Sprite (1917)

Speedy Gonzales (performing artist: Pat Boone)

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References

• Speedy Hire P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Easy Speedy French 1 : 2 Tapes with Listening Guide (reference)

• Sam's Speedy Fire Truck (Fisher Price) (reference)

• Speedy Japanese to Get You There and Back (Speedy Language Series) (reference)

• Speedy Scottie : Waggy Tales Series (reference)

• Speedy Spanish for Corrections Personnel (reference)

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Periodicals

• Speedy Bee (reference)

• Cpt Speedy Spiral (reference)

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Music

• Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming guitars Of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant (reference)

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High Tech

• Speedy Gonzales Aztec Adventure (reference)

• Speedy Gonzalez: Los Gatos Bandidos (reference)

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Speedy Eli. Credit: Library of Congress.

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). The speedy equipping of the armies of democracy depends upon using effectively and immediately the skill of thousands of men in shops such as the Braden and Van Fossen Works, in Staunton, Virginia. These are s. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cloverleaf clusters is the official title for these packages of 105 mm. artillery shells. Delivery lines are speedy at the large Midwest loading plant where they are made. Fourteen 2,000-pound bombs have been removed from a truck and placed in a freight c. Credit: Library of Congress.

All hope for president's returning healthy. Rev. Henry N. Couden, chaplain of the House of Representatives, offering prayer in the House for the speedy recovery of President Wilson. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Amendment VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. (reference)

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A sign in short, if no diversion arises, of some prodigious and speedy outburst

Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.

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Business

ICPs that hope to survive in a mobile world will require assistance to make a speedy transition to wireless. (references)

Although the code does not specify a right to a speedy trial, authorities bring detainees to trial in reasonable time. (references)

Most Greek prospective franchisers are seeking a business, which will offer them speedy return on investment and the chance to use a resource they already have, such as a store or a building. (references)

Children

Mongolia

It provides for more speedy resolution of divorce cases where the relevant agencies have determined that domestic violence is involved. (references)

Economic History

Chile

The Chilean legal system, while fair, is not suited for speedy commercial dispute resolution. (references)

Guatemala

The most recent franchises to open for business in Guatemala are Sir Speedy, Signa-A-Rama and Chili's. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Lucia

There is no constitutional requirement for a speedy trial. (references)

United Arab Emirates

The Federal Constitution provides accused persons the right to a speedy trial. (references)

Lithuania

In November the ECHR found that the Government had violated the right of former Prime Minister Adolfas Slezevicius to a speedy trial. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

The judicial system often was incapable of providing criminal suspects with speedy and fair trials. (references)

Eritrea

The provision of speedy trials was limited by a lack of trained personnel, inadequate funding, and poor infrastructure. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Upon taking office, Gbagbo sought to unify a Côte d'Ivoire divided by ethnic and religious tension through reconciliation efforts and a speedy return to civilian rule. (references)

Travel

Kenya

If the market size warrants, U.S. marketers should seriously consider warehousing in Kenya for speedy supply and service of customers. (references)

Netherlands

Further, U.S. exporters should seriously consider warehousing in the Netherlands for speedy supply and service of their European customers. (references)

Worker Rights

India

NGO's also have demanded that special PITA courts for speedy resolution of cases allow videotaped testimony so that underage victims need not be summoned back for trial. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speedy as a chariot

Expressions using "speedy": i wish you a speedy recovery! ♦ right to speedy and public trial by jury ♦ speedy answer ♦ speedy on foot. Additional references.

Beginning with "speedy": speedy-go.

Afrikaans

vinnig (fast, quick, quickly, rapid, swift, swiftly), haastig (fast, hurried, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Albanian

i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, spanking, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, hasty, momentary, nippy, precipitate, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rife, smart, snappy, speed, swift), ‏عاجل (accelerate, hasten, immediate, instant, precipitate, prompt, rapid, summary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спешен (clamant, emergency, instant, necessitous, pressing, rush, urgent), незабавен (immediate, instant, instantaneous, prompt, straightaway, summary), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed). (various references)

Catalan

r� pid (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Chinese 

迅速 (fast, rapid). (various references)

Czech

rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, high speed, nippy, quick, rapid, ready, spanking, sweeping, swift, wing-footed), promptní (quick, swift, unhesitating), brzký (early). (various references)

Danish

hurtig (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Dutch

spoedig (fast, quick, rapid, soon, swift). (various references)

Esperanto

rapida (fast, quick, rapid, swift), baldaŭa. (various references)

Faeroese

skjótur (fast, quick, rapid, swift), kvikur (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Farsi 

چابک (Adroit, Agile, Brisk, Clever, Handy, Light, Lissome, Nimble, Perky, Quick, Rapid, Spry, Swift), سریع (Precipitate, Prompt, Quick, Rapid, Sudden, Swift), سرعت (Haste, Headway, Pace, Promptitude, Rapidity, Rate, Speed, Tilt, Velocity). (various references)

Finnish

pikainen (prompt, quick, rapid), nopea (fast, quick, rapid, swift), kiireellinen (hasty, pressing, prompt, urgent), joutuisa (prompt, quick, rapid). (various references)

French

rapide (speed), prompt. (various references)

Frisian

fluch (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

German

schnell (apace, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, hurry, prompt, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rapids, slippy, smart, smartly, soon, spanking, speedily, swift, swiftly), baldig (early, quick, soon). (various references)

Greek 

γοργόσ (expeditious, quick, rattling, swift), γοργός (quick, rapid), ταχύσ (cursory, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, precipitate, presto, prompt, quick, rapid, spanking, swift). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"יר (fast, fleet, nimble, nippy, quick, rapid, snap, spanking, summary, swift), קל מרוץ (swift). (various references)

Hungarian

sebes (fast, nimble-footed, rapid, spanking, sweeping, swift, to go like the wind, to trot out, wounded), gyors (agile, current sale, expedite, expeditious, expenditious, expidite, express, facile, fast, fleet, flighty, hasty, high speed, hit and run, laxity, nimble, nimble-footed, nippy, presto, prompt, quick, quick as thought, rapid, rash, ready, snap, spanking, sudden, swift, tantivy). (various references)

Icelandic

hratt (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Indonesian

pesat (rapid), cepat (brisk, dapper, express, fast, prompt, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Irish

tapaidh (fast, quick, quickly, rapid, swift). (various references)

Italian

veloce (fast, fleet, nimble, quick, rapid, rapidly, swift, swinging), rapido (abrupt, cursory, expeditious, express, fast, flying, hasty, quick, rapid, smart, sweeping, swift), pronto (alert, apt, finished, fit, game, hallo, hello, hullo, inclined, Pat, prepared, prompt, quick, ready, ripe, set, through). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スパイ罪 (crime of espionage, fastball, ink spattering, slowing down, spaghetti, spaghetti meat sauce, spaghetti Western, span, span of control, spangle, Spanish, Spanish America, spanner, Spartacus Games, spasm, spats, spatula, speaker, speaker unit, speech, speech therapist, speech therapy, speed, speed ball, speed limit, speed skating, speed up, speed-gun, speedometer, speedway, spot, student slang for the restaurant chain "Spaghetti Factory", thank you, wrench). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ス�"ーディー , ス�"ーディ . (various references)

Korean 

� 른 (FAST). (various references)

Malay

lekas (fast, quick, rapid, swift), jepat (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Manx

tappee (allegro, express, hasty, perfunctory, quick, quick-acting, rapid, swift), gastey (active, agile, athletic, clever, lively), chionn (austere, busy, delicate, erect, erect as penis, fast, firm, firmly, hard-pressed, hardy, inflated, stiff, stuck fast, taut, tense, tight-fitting). (various references)

Norwegian

hurtig (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Papiamen

rápido (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Pig Latin

eedyspay.(various references)

Polish

szybki (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Portuguese

rápido (active, clear-sighted, crisp, double-quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, light-legged, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, riffle, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, tripping, volant, winged), veloz (arrowy, clipping, fast, nimble, quick, rapid, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, winged). (various references)

Romanian

repede (anon, apace, brisk, briskly, early, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hurried, in the same breath, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rash, smartly, soon, sudden, swift, swiftly, winged). (various references)

Russian 

быстрый (agile, expedite, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, flying, hasty, light, lively, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rath, rathe, sharpish, slippy, smart, snappy, spanking, straightaway, swift, tantivy, winged, wing-footed). (various references)

Scottish

luath (ashes, fast, fleet, meaning `speedy', quick, rapid, soon, speedy : cho luath 's a, swift), bras (fast, impetuous, keen, quick, rapid, rash, swift, vehement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

brz (cursory, expeditious, fast, fleet, high speed, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, repartee, spanking, swift, tantivy, tripping). (various references)

Spanish

rápido (agile, darting, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, snappy, spanking, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling). (various references)

Swahili

-epesi (fast, light, quick, rapid, swift), epesi (fast, light, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Swedish

snar (prompt, quick), skyndsam (hurried, prompt, quick). (various references)

Tagalog

matúlin (fast, quick, rapid, swift), madalî (easy, facile, fast, quick, rapid, swift), mabilís (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

Turkish

seri (battery, chain, crash, cycle, fast, fleet, high speed, quick, rapid, sequence, serial, seriate, series, set, sharp), süratli (express, fast, fastmoving, quick, rakish, swift), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, swift, winged, zippy), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hasty, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, ready, sharp, snappy, soon, swift, swiftly). (various references)

Ukrainian

швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, snappy, spanking, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), квапливий (hasteful, hurried, precipitant, slapdash), невідкладний (exigent, pressing). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhanh chóng; ngay lập tức, mau lẹ (apace, expeditious, prompt, trippingly, wing-footed). (various references)

Welsh

cyflym (fast, quick, rapid, swift), buan (fast, fleet, quick, rapid, soon, swift). (various references)

Yucatec

seebak (fast, quick, rapid, swift), seeb (fast, quick, rapid, swift). (various references)

celer, celeres, celerius, citatus, citiorum, citius, cito, maturae, mature, maturius, propera, veloce, velocem, veloces, veloci, velociores, velocissimus, velocium, velocius, velox. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Speedy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pedy, peedy, Saeedi, Sheezdi, sledy, Speddy, speede, speedis, speedo, speeed, speery, speeth, spendy, spery, steedy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: deeps, pedes, seedy, seepy, speed.

-2 letters: deep, dees, deys, dyes, espy, eyed, eyes, peds, peed, pees, pyes, seed, seep, sped.

-3 letters: dee, dey, dye, eds, eye, ped, pee, pes, pye, see, spy, yep, yes.

-4 letters: de, ed, es, pe, ye.

+2 letters: eyedrops, speedily, speedway, syphered.

+3 letters: ependymas, parsleyed, pederasty, redeploys, resprayed, speedways.

+4 letters: clepsydrae, dyspepsies, endophytes, flyspecked, pelecypods, presidency, presumedly, proselyted, sleepyhead, stenotyped, superhyped.

+5 letters: copyreaders, deployments, desperately, despondency, dispersedly, eurypterids, eyedroppers, hydrosphere, hypermedias, misemployed, polymerised, possessedly, professedly, psychedelia, psychedelic, redisplayed, serendipity, sleepyheads, stereotyped, subemployed, unemployeds.