different between tryst vs quickie

English

Etymology

From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traust? (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *dr?- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust (which see).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/, /t?a?st/
• Rhymes: -?st, -a?st

Noun

tryst (plural trysts)

1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.

   • 2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ?ISBN, 9781862078550)

     If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?

2. (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.

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Verb

tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)

1. (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
2. (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
3. (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.

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English

Etymology

quick +? -ie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

quickie (plural quickies)

1. (colloquial) Something made or done swiftly.
2. (colloquial, by extension) A brief sexual encounter.

   Hyponym: nooner

   • 2005, Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso (?ISBN), page 89:

     Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois] today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?

3. (cricket) A fast bowler.

Derived terms

• quota quickie

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