Quicksilver is another name for the element mercury, which is silver & I assume is also quick. It's also the name of a Marvel Comics super-hero who has super-speed powers. There are a lot of speedster super heroes. Don't get me started.
Quicklime is another name for lime. For those of us who like to add an extra syllable to a word to draw out interesting conversations about lime.
Quick bread is two words but it should be one. Let's make it one.
Quickbread is a bread made with a leavening agent so that it bakes quickly.
Quick-freeze (look, it needs the dash) is a process by which food is very rapidly frozen, to preserve freshness, or also perhaps to kill the demons that live inside all processed food. Look it up.
Quick-witted is a word no one's ever used to describe me.
Quickgrass, the dictionary tells me, is "the couch grass, Agropyron repens." Couch grass? The couch is one of the places I am the least quick!
Quicktime is a rate of marching - seriously? - yeah! - 120 thirty-inch paces a minute! (It's also something I use to watch movie files on my computer, but that doesn't march or anything.)
There are others, too. Under "quick" in the dictionary. But there's no "quickstone." I just made that up. I couldn't help myself! I wish you'd start using it too, especially online, like on Tweeter or something. Something like, "Only buy a house with a good quickstone base!" Or, "Lava formations in this area resulted in massive areas covered by quickstone."
Just so a snooty geologist can sniff at you & say, "There's no such thing as quickstone."
You can laugh in his face!
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