quizzes
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noun
1.
an informal test or examination of a student or class.
2.
a questioning.
3.
a practical joke; a hoax.
4.
Chiefly British. an eccentric, often odd-looking person.
verb (used with object)
5.
to examine or test (a student or class) informally by questions.
6.
to question closely: The police quizzed several suspects.
7.
Chiefly British. to make fun of; ridicule; mock; chaff.
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Origin:
1775–85 in sense “odd person”; 1840–50 for def 1; origin uncertain
1775–85 in sense “odd person”; 1840–50 for def 1; origin uncertain
Related forms
quiz·za·ble, adjective
quiz·zer, noun
un·quiz·za·ble, adjective
un·quizzed, adjective
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quiz (kwɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl quizzes | |
| 1. | a. an entertainment in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions, esp as a radio or television programme |
| b. (as modifier): a quiz programme | |
| 2. | any set of quick questions designed to test knowledge |
| 3. | an investigation by close questioning; interrogation |
| 4. | obsolete a practical joke; hoax |
| 5. | obsolete a puzzling or eccentric individual |
| 6. | obsolete a person who habitually looks quizzically at others, esp through a small monocle |
| —vb , quizzes, quizzes, quizzing, quizzed | |
| 7. | to investigate by close questioning; interrogate |
| 8. | informal (US), (Canadian) to test or examine the knowledge of (a student or class) |
| 9. | obsolete (tr) to look quizzically at, esp through a small monocle |
| [C18: of unknown origin] | |
| 'quizzer | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
quiz
1847, quies, perhaps from L. qui es? "who are you?," first question in oral exams in L. in old-time grammar schools. Spelling quiz first recorded 1886, though it was in use as a noun from 1867, perhaps from apparently unrelated slang word quiz meaning "odd person" (1782, source of quizzical). The anecdote
that credits this word to a bet by the Dublin theater-manager Daly that he could coin a word is regarded by authorities as "doubtful" and the first record of it appears to be in 1836 (in Smart's "Walker Remodelled"; the story is omitted in the edition of 1840).
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