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Synonyms for quizzed

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kwiz
Phonetic Transcription : kwɪz

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Définition of quizzed

Origin :
  • 1867, "brief examination of a student on some subject," perhaps from quiz (v.), or from apparently unrelated slang word quiz "odd person" (1782, source of quizzical). According to OED, the anecdote that credits this word to a bet by the Dublin theater-manager Daly or Daley 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).
  • The word Quiz is a sort of a kind of a wordThat people apply to some being absurd;One who seems, as t'were oddly your fancy to strikeIn a sort of a fashion you somehow don't likeA mixture of odd, and of queer, and all thatWhich one hates, just, you know, as some folks hate a cat;A comical, whimsical, strange, droll -- that is,You know what I mean; 'tis -- in short, -- 'tis a quiz![from "Etymology of Quiz," Charles Dibdin, 1842]
  • verb question
Example sentences :
  • He quizzed me rather, I admit, but he made it vastly different.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Father John too was always quizzing him, and Denis did not like to be quizzed.
  • Extract from : « The Macdermots of Ballycloran » by Anthony Trollope
  • Each student should be quizzed on his reading, or should be required to give a summary of it.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
  • Now, I can't stand the way I shall be quizzed about it at all.
  • Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
  • I quizzed his sister time and again about his relations with women.
  • Extract from : « Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess » by Henry W. Fischer
  • Members of the crew were called before the Captain and Mr. Wise and quizzed.
  • Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
  • When the dinner and the wine were gone, they sang, they gossiped, they quizzed.
  • Extract from : « Deerbrook » by Harriet Martineau
  • You will see later on in Paine's statement that I quizzed him on the same subject.
  • Extract from : « Between the Lines » by Henry Bascom Smith
  • “Thank him for nothing for that same,” I answered, determined not to be quizzed by them.
  • Extract from : « Peter the Whaler » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • One never likes to be quizzed; and I, of course, thought he was quizzing me.
  • Extract from : « Peter the Whaler » by W.H.G. Kingston

Antonyms for quizzed

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