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The surname Quick is English, German, and Dutch. Middle English quik, Middle High German quick, Middle Dutch quic means 'alive', 'lively', 'fresh'. It was a nickname for a lively or agile person. The surname is also a name for someone who lived near one of several types of vegetation named from this word, such as couch grass (grows rapidly and difficult to eradicate), the aspen (its leaves tremble as if alive), the poplar (widely used to make quickset fences). It is also an English name derived from someone who lived at an outlying dairy farm, from Old English cu (cow) and wic (outlying settlement). It is also a Cornish name for someonewho lived in a wood, from the Cornis word gwyk.

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Quick is English in origin.

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