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Quiz   /kwɪz/   Listen
noun
Quiz  n.  
1.
A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
2.
One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.
3.
An odd or absurd fellow.
4.
An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination. (Cant, U.S.)


verb
Quiz  v. t.  (past & past part. quizzed; pres. part. quizzing)  
1.
To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions. "He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room."
2.
To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3.
To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4. (U.S.)
Quizzing glass, a small eyeglass.


Quiz  v. i.  To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4. (U.S.)





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"Quiz" Quotes from Famous Books



... and breakfast again at the Arroyo Seco. Aaron Scales and Dan Happersett acted as couriers to Miss Jean's conveyance, while the rest dallied behind, for there was quite a cavalcade of young folks going a distance our way. This gave Uncle Lance a splendid chance to quiz the girls in the party. I was riding with a Miss Wilson from Ramirena, who had come up to make a visit at a near-by ranch and incidentally attend the dance at Shepherd's. I admit that I was a little too ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... was sometimes made on the former volumes reminds me rather of the note on the quiz on Crabbe in the 'Rejected Addresses':—'The author is well aware how ill it becomes his clerical profession to give any pain, however slight, to any individual, however foolish or wicked.' Pain must be given, and offence will be taken; but you will do what is right and must be indifferent. ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... out and thrust a small, soiled piece of paper into mine. The writing on it was in Arabic, so I went back to the seat in the far corner, to puzzle it out, he standing meanwhile in the doorway and continuing to quiz people as if I had meant nothing in his life. The message was ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy
... the dumb matrons methought the trial had a chance of being terminated sooner than it otherwise would. The matrons, instead of their tongues, had other instruments to convey their ideas: each of them had three quizzes, one quiz pendent from the string that sewed up her mouth, and another quiz in either hand. When she wished to express her negative, she darted and recoiled the quizzes in her right and left hand; and when she desired to express her affirmative, she, ...
— The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen • Rudolph Erich Raspe
... he must keep up a body of troops for the defence of the whole. Huascar added, that if Atahualpa refused submission to these conditions, he would march in person against him as a declared enemy. On receiving this message, Atahualpa consulted two of his fathers principal officers, Quiz-quiz and Cilicuchima, brave and experienced warriors, who advised him not to wait the invasion of his brother, but to take the field without delay and march against him; as the army which was under his orders was sufficient to enable him to acquire the whole provinces of the empire, and would ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr


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