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ˈover-ˈquick, a.
[over- 28.]
Too quick. So ˈover-ˈquickly adv., too quickly, too readily.
1538Starkey England i. iv. 132, I somewhat feare that we admyt ouer-quykly thes fautys in the Church. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 6 b, He graunteth that he was ouer quicke. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 166 The fire..must be kept pretty quick, and yet not over⁓quick, least the oyle boil over. 1859Tennyson Vivien 724 Overquick art thou To catch a loathly plume fall'n from the wing Of that foul bird of rapine. |