pdq
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Definitions of pdq word
- abbreviation PDQ pretty damn quick 0
- adverb pdq right away; immediately 0
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Origin of pdq
First appearance:
before 1870 One of the 26% newest English words
1870-75; p(retty) d(amn) q(uick)
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Parts of speech for Pdq
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pdq popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 36% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
Synonyms for pdq
adv pdq
- any more — If something does not happen or is not true any more or any longer, it has stopped happening or is no longer true.
- at once — If you do something at once, you do it immediately.
- fleetly — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- immediately — without lapse of time; without delay; instantly; at once: Please telephone him immediately.
adj pdq
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- chop chop — pidgin English for quickly
- chop-chop — with haste; quickly.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- hasty — moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
adverb pdq
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- now — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
adjective pdq
- expeditive — (obsolete) Performing with speed.
- fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- flashing — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
- quickie — a book, story, movie, etc., usually trivial in quality, requiring only a short time to produce.
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