Meaning of overquick | Babel Free

Definitions

Too quick; overly quick.

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Examples

“And Merlin answered, 'Overquick art thou / To catch⟳ a loathly plume fallen from the wing / Of that foul bird of rapine whose whole prey / Is man's good name⟳: he never wronged his bride.”

“Then I slipped away and paid marked and honorific courtesy to Bederhof's wife and Bederhof's daughters, tall girls, not over-quick to be married, somehow quite inevitable if one considered Bederhof himself.”

“It is really, as Johnson himself saw⟳, an elliptical expression, and was due to an overquick wit, the sire of many an Irish bull.”

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