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quicking

quicking is the present participle and gerund of quick.

Meaning of quick

Verb

quick (third-person singular simple present quicks, present participle quicking, simple past and past participle quicked)

  1. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
  2. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To quicken.
    • I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word ‘Farewell’

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Questions about quicking

What is quicking the present participle and gerund of?
Quicking is the present participle and gerund of quick.

Words near quicking in the dictionary

  1. quickhanded
  2. quickhatch
  3. quickhatches
  4. quickie
  5. quickies
  6. quicking
  7. quickish
  8. quickle
  9. quickled
  10. quickles
  11. quickley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quicking (page history and authors); quick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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