Quickie

[Margaret Lee]

A term related to living is "quickening," the first movements of the
fetus felt by a pregnant woman.


--- Terry Lynn Irons <t.irons at MOREHEAD-ST.EDU> wrote:
> At lunch after church this morning a group of us were talking and I
> remarked that it is yet difficult for me to say "living and the
> dead" in
> place of "the quick and the dead" in the Nicene Creed.  My comment
> led
> to a discussion of the term "quick," with which newer members of
> the
> congregation were unfamiliar.  After an enlightening clarification
> by a
> visitor from Berea, one member of our congregation, a dentist by
> trade,
> recounted for us the story of a patient who had come in recently
> complaining that he had a tooth that was "quickie."   Wondering
> what
> kind of quickie the patient had in mind and assuring herself that
> nothing of the sort was going to happen in her office, she inquired
> of
> the symptoms the patient suffered.  It seems that whenever he ate
> anything, a sharp pain ran into one of his back teeth, which he
> termed
> "quickie."
>
> Has anyone else encountered this use of the term?  What is its
> distribution?  (I wonder if it is DARE IV, whose arrival I
> anxiously
> await.)
>
>
> --
> Virtually, Terry
>
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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - English and Linguistics
 & University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
(757)727-5769(voice);(757)727-5084(fax);(757)851-5773(home)
e-mail: margaret.lee at hamptonu.edu   or   mlee303 at yahoo.com

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