单词 | quizzingly |
释义 | quizzinglyadv. Now rare and archaic. In a quizzing manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [adverb] rallyingly1669 banteringly1691 quizzically1810 quizzingly1831 japishly1888 joshingly1957 1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 147 A lady who was quizzingly condoling with him. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. ii. 526 Friedrich..answers quizzingly: ‘Island of Tobago?’ 1877 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 703/1 She bade him come and sit down, and began a chat, but he would only laugh and answer quizzingly, working cat's cradles with worsted and big needles. 1916 Times 4 May 3/6 I admitted to my genial guide that I was astonished at the manner in which the Corporation provides for the amusements of its visitors, so unlike the usual British style. ‘But we have not finished yet,’ he quizzingly added. 1950 A. L. Rowse Diary 11 Feb. (2003) 141 On the way a curious experience: a man looked quizzingly at me out of a car: I thought it was Norman Lyne, those sloe-black eyes. 1970 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 70 2135/1 Bobby checked his head and stared quizzingly into my face; he had a way of sizing up his listeners before he spoke. 1993 G. Bradshaw Misrepresentations: Shakespeare & Materialists ii. 146 The second act of Henry V sets up an ironic, quizzing relationship between the ‘high’ and ‘low’... The distinction..is..reasserted, still more quizzingly, in the last act's ironic diptych. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1831 |
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