overquick

Adjective

1. Too quick; overly quick.
   • And Merlin answered, 'Overquick art thou / To catch a loathly plume fallen from the wing / Of that foul bird of rapine whose whole prey / Is man's good name: he never wronged his bride. - 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson,...
   • Then I slipped away and paid marked and honorific courtesy to Bederhof's wife and Bederhof's daughters, tall girls, not over-quick to be married, somehow quite inevitable if one considered Bederhof himself. - 1899,...
   • It is really, as Johnson himself saw, an elliptical expression, and was due to an overquick wit, the sire of many an Irish bull. - 1900, Thomas Gray, William Mason, Duncan Crookes Tovey, Norton Nicholls, The Letters of...