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quickie

quickie

26 7.3
A short job done quickly without much care
  • noun
  • /ˈkwɪki/
  • Informal
translation icon : algo rápido
  • I don't know, kind of a quickie summary of the story.
  • a quickie in the bathroom
  • just a quickie
  • a quickie in the car

I don't know, kind of a quickie summary of the story.

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Examples

  • Today I'm going to show you guys a quickie tutorial featuring a couple of tricks on how to make your figures look looser and more dynamic.

  • How to Have the Best Quickie of Your Life

    Blog text (23)

  • Rules are rules, so, I guess this will have to be a quickie.

    21 Jump Street (2012)

  • I completed the report as a quickie, since I was short on time.

  • The artist made a quickie sketch of the scene before it changed.

  • Feeling rushed, I threw together a quickie meal that did not take long to prepare.

Compounds

quickie article
  • Literature
6.7

A short informal news text that someone writes quickly with little research

quickie meal
  • Informal
3.6

A quick, simple meal you make and eat when short on time

How Detailed

detailed
353 3.7
preliminary
325 5.2
sketchy
33 7.0
quickie
  • Informal
26 7.3

Surface Forms

quickie singular
quickies plural

Morphology

quickie = quick (transparent) = quick + ie

The noun is directly derived from the adjective 'quick' with the informal noun-forming suffix '-ie', meaning a brief instance of something done quickly.

Etymology

Quickie is made of quick plus the little ending -ie, which makes a word feel 'small' or informal. So a quickie is a short, small job or action done 'quick' and often without much care.