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adjective
1.
odd, queer, or comical.
2.
questioning or puzzled: a quizzical expression on her face.
3.
derisively questioning, ridiculing, or chaffing.
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Quizzical
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example Sentences
- Onstage, he was a wily savant, quizzical and wide-eyed but not naive.
- The fruit attracted some quizzical glances, the rabbi noticed.
- He was playing one of his tenderly quizzical ballad lines on alto saxophone when he toppled suddenly to the stage.
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Word Origin & History
quizzical
1789, from quiz "odd or eccentric person" (1782), of unknown origin (see quiz).
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