quickie

See also: Quickie

English

Etymology

From quick +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪki/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɪki

Noun

quickie (plural quickies)

1. (colloquial) Something made or done swiftly.
2. (colloquial, by extension) A brief sexual encounter.

   Hyponym: nooner

   • 1971, Neal Cassady, The First Third, City Lights, page 136:

     We had a quickie; I didn’t come & was only telling of the future where there was better bed fucks & us living contentedly as we walked slowly across town again to her home.

   • 2005 [1994], Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89:

     Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois]^[sic] today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?

3. (cricket) A fast bowler.

Derived terms

• quota quickie

Translations

something made or done swiftly

• Czech: rychlovka (cs) f
• Finnish: pika- (fi), pikainen (fi) (added in front of whatever is done quickly)
• German: Quickie (de) m
• Italian: cosa veloce f
• Swedish: snabbis (sv) c
• Ukrainian: нашвидкору́ч зро́блена халту́ра (našvydkorúč zróblena xaltúra)

brief sexual encounter

• Czech: rychlovka (cs) f
• Dutch: vluggertje (nl) n
• Finnish: pikapano (fi), pikaiset pl
• French: petite vite (fr) f
• German: schnelle Nummer f, Quickie (de) m
• Greek: ξεπέτα (el) (xepéta)
• Icelandic: skyndikynni n pl
• Italian: sveltina (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjappis m

• Polish: numerek (pl) m
• Portuguese: rapidinha (pt) f
• Russian: перепихон (ru) m (perepixon)
• Swedish: snabbis (sv) c
• Turkish: cup cup
• Ukrainian: перепиха́ння (perepyxánnja), швидки́й секс (švydkýj seks)