Quizzery

[f. QUIZ v.¹ + -ERY.] The practice of quizzing; an instance of this.

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1821. Examiner, 3 June, 348/1. A law … destructive to mirth and quizzery.

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1825. T. H. Lister, Granby, lvi. (1836), 394. He began with a little gentle quizzery of the Ladies Manvers.

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1841. Caroline Fox, Old Friends (1882), 122. Of Mrs. Carlyle’s quizzeries, he thinks [etc.].

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