2023 To me this is a silly question asked by old quivering misers and answered with a roaring NO by their doom-gurus. Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023 Other pastures carpeted in bluegrass and ringed in miles of blackboard fence contain momma and baby horse pairs, the newborn foals wobbling about, quivering nostrils lifted to catch a passing scent. Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023 The butterflies enter first, quivering gaily atop their sticks. 2023 Jackson’s props, characters, and story were quickly subsumed by the conquering power that is Gwar absorbed like the quivering flesh of their enemies. Verb Stella didn’t use masking tape on his paintings, and his lines often quiver Pape’s prints bear the organic nature of her materials - the grain of wood and the grain of paper. 2023 See the word snow in its pages and quiver with either childhood delight or curmudgeonly grumbling. 2023 In this effort, Scythian archers were aided by a key accessory: a bowcase/ quiver combo known as a gorytos, which was worn on the leg and could hold hundreds of arrows. 2023 His John Wick was a savage badass looking into the abyss…with a quiver of decency. 2023 Part of the engine's good nature is its silky smoothness: The Saab sixteen-valve never emits a coarse quiver or a discordant grind. Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE, At times, multiple fish would thrash and quiver along the rocks. Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, The camera creeps ever closer to Kessell as the muscles of her face quiver with stress.
#Quiver meaning in english full
Quick-witted is from 1520s.Noun The person who fills a quiver full with them is truly happy! - Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, Major’s patience stands out here: the British singer-songwriter never presses too hard in any direction on the song, letting the full instrumentation and the slight quiver in his voice carry home his first new music since 2020. Quick-change artist (1886) originally was an actor expert in playing different roles in the same performance of a show. Quick buck is from 1946, American English. To be quick about something is from 1937.
1200).Īs an adverb, "quickly, in a quick manner," from c.
Also formerly of bright flowers or colors (c. Also in Middle English "with child, in an advanced state of pregnancy" (when the woman can feel the child move within).
where the ground is shifting and yielding (mid-14c., compare quicksand). Also in Middle English used of soft soils, gravel pits, etc. Of an action, process, etc., "done in little time," 1540s. Of persons, "mentally active, prompt to perceive or respond to impressions" from late 15c. A somewhat similar feeling may distinguish NHG schnell and rasch or it may be more a matter of local preference. 1300, on notion of "full of life." NE swift or the now more common fast may apply to rapid motion of any duration, while in quick (in accordance with its original sense of 'live, lively') there is a notion of 'sudden' or 'soon over.' We speak of a fast horse or runner in a race, a quick starter but not a quick horse. Middle English quik, from Old English cwic "living, alive, animate, characterized by the presence of life" (now archaic), and figuratively, of mental qualities, "rapid, ready," from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian quik, Old Norse kvikr "living, alive," Dutch kwik "lively, bright, sprightly," Old High German quec "lively," German keck "bold"), from PIE root *gwei- "to live." Sense of "lively, active, swift, speedy, hasty," developed by c.
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