Reverse Dictionary: SWIFT

ADJECTIVES
► CELERIPEDEAN swift-footed, nimble-heeled → 1656 obs.
► FEATHER-FOOTED moving silently and swiftly → 1565
► FEATHER-HEELED moving silently and swiftly → a1600
► HASTIF ► HASTIVE speedy, swift → 1382 obs.
► HASTY speedy, quick, expeditious; swift, rapid; sudden → c1340 arch.
► HOTFOOT swift, speedy; acting with haste or promptness → 1582
► PERNICIOUS rapid, swift, quick → a1656
► RANK having great speed or force; swift; impetuous; violent → a1225
► SKEET swift, active → c1400 obs.
► SKELPING swift → 1607 Eng. dial.
► SUDDEN of persons: swift in action, quick to perform, prompt, expeditious → 1591 obs.
► SWIFTY swift → 1380 chiefly poetic usage
► TITE quick, swift → c1400 obs.
► VELOCIOUS rapid, swift → 1680
► YERN swift, rapid; brisk, lively; nimble, active → a1300 obs.

ADVERBS
► BOOKITY-BOOK quickly, swiftly → 1935 Amer. dial.
► HELL-BENT AND CROOKED in a swift, disorderly, excited manner → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LIKE A BIG-ASSED BIRD swiftly → 1945 US sl.
► LIKE A BIRD with swift and easy motion onwards; easily; without resistance, difficulty, or hesitation → 1873
► LIKE A STREAK with the swiftness of lightning → 1839 sl.
► LIKE OLD BOOTS quickly, swiftly → 1850 sl.
► LIKE SHIT OFF A SHOVEL extremely fast, swift, prompt → 1998 UK sl.
► LIKE THE MILL TAIL O’ THUNDER in a swift, disorderly, and excited manner → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LIKE THE MILLTAILS OF HELL in a fast and violent manner, swiftly → 1923 Amer. dial.
► PEREMPTOR swiftly, without delay → 1920 Sc.
► QUICK-AND-QUIDDER swiftly, quickly → 1633 Sc.
► QUICK-FOOT in haste, swiftly → 1891
► QUICK QUIDDER swiftly, quickly → 1866 Sc.
► QUIDDER swiftly, quickly, esp. of sudden vanishing → 1866 Sc.
► RATHE denoting rapidity in the performance or completion of an action; quickly, rapidly, swiftly, esp. without delay, promptly, soon → c825 obs.
► RATHELY quickly, rapidly, swiftly → a950 obs.
► SKEETLY swiftly; immediately → a1400-50 obs.
► SWIFTERLY more swiftly → 1425 obs.
► SWITH rapidly, quickly, swiftly → 1275 obs.
► SWITHLY rapidly, quickly, swiftly → 1370 obs.
► TANTIVY at full gallop; swiftly, quickly, hastily; headlong → 1641 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TANTWIVY at full gallop; swiftly; headlong → 1785 obs.
► VELOCIOUSLY rapidly, swiftly → 1680
► YERNE quickly, swiftly, rapidly, fast, briskly, at a great rate → a1023 obs.

NOUNS
► HASTINESS quickness, swiftness, rapidity; suddenness → c1330 obs.
► PERNICITY swiftness, quickness, agility → 1592 obs.
► RAPTNESS swiftness → 1597 obs.
► SWIFTHEAD swiftness → 1340 obs.
► SWIFTSHIP swiftness → 1225 obs.
► SWITHNESS swiftness, rapidity → 1540 Sc. obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CELERIPEDEAN one who is swift-footed → 1623 obs.
► DARTER a person or animal that darts or moves swiftly → 1818
► HARE a person likened to a hare in some way, as in swiftness or timidity → ME
► HAREFOOT a nickname for a swift-footed person → c1410
► PACER a person who goes at a great pace → 1864 colloq.
► SWIFTFOOT a fast runner; a swift-footed person or animal → 1825
► VELOCIPEDE a person who moves swiftly or quickly → 1822

VERBS
► BALL THE JACK to move rapidly or swiftly; to make haste; to go fast (said esp. of a railroad train); to work swiftly or energetically → 1913 Amer. sl.
► BEETLE ► BEETLE ALONG ► BEETLE OFF to leave quickly; to move swiftly → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BIN to move or run swiftly → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BINNER to move swiftly, to dash, to rush; to work with noise and energy → 1803 Sc. & N. Ireland
► JACULATE to dart, to hurl; to dart forward; to move swiftly and suddenly → 1623
► LASH to move swiftly and suddenly; to make a sudden movement, to dash, to rush → c1330
► SCREEVE ► SCRIEVE ► SKRIEVE to move or glide swiftly along → 1789 Sc.
► STRIP to move or pass swiftly → 1400 obs.
► SWIFTEN to make swift, to hasten → 1638
► VUNG to whizz, to move swiftly; to cause a humming or buzzing sound by this movement → 1790 Sc.