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quick-witted, a.
(Stress variable.)
[f. quick wit + -ed2.]
Having a quick or ready wit; mentally acute, sharp, clever.
1530Tindal Pent., Lev. Prol. (1884) 297 Allegoryes make a man qwick witted. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. v. ii. 38 How likes Gremio these quicke-witted folkes? 1693Dryden Juvenal iii. (1697) 50 Quick-Witted, Brazen-fac'd, with fluent Tongues. 1702Mead Mech. Acc. Poisons Wks. (1775) 50 Impatient, ready to action, quickwitted. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 133 There is always great freshness and originality in an uneducated and quick-witted person. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 189 The cultivated and quick-witted men in whose familiar society he lived.
Hence quickˈwittedness.
1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. x. 257 He has French quick-wittedness, French good temper. 1883P. Schaff Hist. Church Per. 1. II. lxxxiii. 712 The curiosity and quickwittedness of the Samaritan Magdalene. |