kwik

kwik (comparative kwikker, superlative kwikkest)

1. Eye dialect spelling of quick.

• Phonemic spelling, generally used in commercial names, like Kwik Meal.

• kwik cricket

Chemical element
Hg
Previous: goud (Au)
Next: tallium (Tl)

From Dutch kwik, short for kwikzilver.

• IPA^(key): /kvək/

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kwik (uncountable)

1. mercury

Chemical element
Hg
Previous: goud (Au)
Next: thallium (Tl)

• IPA^(key): /kʋɪk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: kwik
• Rhymes: -ɪk

From kwikzilver.

kwik n (uncountable)

1. the element mercury
2. (metonymous) the temperature

   Het kwik is vannacht tot onder nul gedaald.

   The mercury has dropped to below zero (degrees) tonight.

• kwikzilver

• kwikthermometer

• kek
• kwikstaart
• kwikzand
• kwikzilver
• verkwikken

• Afrikaans: kwik
• → Caribbean Javanese: kuwig
• → Papiamentu: kuek, kwik
• → Sranan Tongo: kwek
• → West Frisian: kwik

From Middle Dutch quic, from Old Dutch quic, from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz. Compare English quick.

kwik (comparative kwikker, superlative kwikst)

1. Alternative form of kwiek

Declension of kwik
uninflected	kwik
inflected	kwikke
comparative	kwikker
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		kwik	kwikker	het kwikst het kwikste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	kwikke	kwikkere	kwikste
	n. sing.	kwik	kwikker	kwikste
	plural	kwikke	kwikkere	kwikste
definite		kwikke	kwikkere	kwikste
partitive		kwiks	kwikkers	—

From Dutch kwik.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkwɪ˦ɡ]

kwik n

1. (uncountable) mercury
2. A part of mercury

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Deverbal from kwiczeć.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkfik/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: kwik
• Homophone: Kwik

kwik

1. oink, squeak (used to imitate the sound a pig or boar makes)

kwik m inan

1. oink, squeak (high-pitched sound made by pigs, boars, horses, or other animals)
2. squeak (high-pitched sound made by a person that the speaker does not like)

• kwik I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kwik II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kwik in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Frisian quik, from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“living; active”). More at quick.

kwik

1. perk; nimble

From English quick.

kwik

1. quick