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quiz
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Word definitions for quiz in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quiz \Quiz\ (kw[i^]z), n. [It is said that Daly, the manager of a Dublin playhouse, laid a wager that a new word of no meaning should be the common talk and puzzle of the city in twenty-four hours. In consequence of this the letters q u i z were chalked ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, "to question," quies , perhaps from Latin qui es? "who are you?," first question in oral exams in Latin in old-time grammar schools. Spelling quiz first recorded 1886, though it was in use as a noun spelling from 1854, perhaps in this case from apparently ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs" [syn: test ] [also: quizzing , quizzes , quizzed , quizzes (pl)]
Usage examples of quiz.
Cappy was bent over the essay-type meteorology quiz, the tension throbbing in her temples.
Cloud took out his quizzing glass, blessing Charlie Parrett for treating it kindly, and surveyed the overturned furniture, the broken glassware, and, finally, the livid baronet.
He could not make sense, though he joined words he gave me Phiz, styx, wrong, buck, flame, quiz.
Chase quizzed the cadet about planar changes and burn schedules until he satisfied himself that she knew her textbooks.
Did Quarle suspect her of lying, and want to get her someplace dark and private to quiz her more thoroughly-or worse?
Damerel, quizzing him, but with such an understanding smile in his eves that Aubrey forbore to take offence.
With his eyes on her and one eyebrow elevated, he grasped the handle of his quizzing glass and raised it halfway to his eye as if utterly incredulous of the fact that she had the effrontery to hold his gaze.
But she showed him with her eyes that she was not to be cowed by a single eyebrow and a half-raised quizzing glass.
She would grow into an eccentric old lady who peered at the world through a giant quizzing glass, terrifying the pretentious and amusing young children with her hideously magnified eye.
Wulfric turned his quizzing glass upon the young man, unsure whether he was being subtly reprimanded for being high in the instep or whether he was being treated as some sort of comrade who was expected to agree that out-and-outers made more desirable companions than ladies with refined manners.
If ever she caught his eyeand it happened altogether too frequentlyhe lofted one eyebrow or both and grasped the handle of his quizzing glass as if he were about to verify the amazing fact that such a lowly mortal really had dared lift her eyes to his.
That he would chase her down and beat her into submission with his quizzing glass?
She had mental images of herself pummeling his chest with both fists, stamping on his boots with both feet, and twisting his quizzing glass into a corkscrew while screeching at him like a demented night owl.
The fingers of his right hand found the handle of his quizzing glass and closed about it.
He fingered the handle of his quizzing glass while Lady Falconbridge tapped one impatient foot on the floor.