speedy

Meanings

Adjective

• rapid; swift

Verb

• to process in a faster than normal, accelerated way
• to apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); speedy delete

Related

Similar words

• fast, swift, quick, rapid
• speed up
• speedy delete

Origin

• From Middle English spedy, spedi, from Old English spēdiġ, from Proto-Germanic *spōdigaz, equivalent to speed + -y. Cognate with Scots spedie, Dutch spoedig, German sputig, spudig.