Quickie

[Joan Houston Hall]

Yes, DARE IV (coming in December) will have two examples of "quickie"
meaning 'experiencing sharp pain or extreme sensitivity.'  One is from
Alabama, the other from the southern Appalachians.  Glad to have this
example for the files.

At 03:13 PM 8/25/02 -0400, you 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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