Quickly


[kwik-lee] /ˈkwɪk li/

adverb
1.
with speed; rapidly; very soon.
adv.

late Old English cwiculice “vigorously, keenly;” see quick (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning “rapidly, in a short space of time” is from c.1200.

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