| 释义 |
ˈquizzable, a.
[f. quiz v.1 + -able.]
That may be quizzed. Hence quizzaˈbility.
1797The Quiz No. 13. 85 Every body seems to set me down as a butt made on purpose to be ridiculed,..as if I had ‘This man is quizable’, pasted in large letters on my back. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 687 It may be something satirical, if they see anything quizzable—something about yourself. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. v. vii. I. 616 Even book-men..are good for something, more especially if rich mines of quizzability turn-out to be workable in them.
So quiˈzzacious a., given to quizzing. quizzaˈtorial a., of a quizzing character. quiˈzzee1, one who is quizzed.
1810Bentham Packing (1821) 179 Another epigram, still more pointed and quizzatorial than the Italian one. 1825R. P. Ward Tremaine I. xxiv. 184 For quizzing to take effect, there must be two parties,..the quizzer and quizzee. c1830Bentham Wks. (1838–43) X. 285, I made a little quizzacious attack upon the bishop. 1840New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 526 Taking care to make their remarks..loud enough to be heard by the quizzees. |