1785 G. Colman Turk & no Turk i. 12 So Quizzy, Sure is he, Who won't tip a tizzey, To peep at the phizzey Of our little Turk?

1797 Posthumous Daughter I. iv. 29 Her attentions to me..deserve gratitude, which I will shew her though it offends Papa. Between ourselves, he is rather quizzy about what people we visit.

1797 G. Walker Cinthelia IV. vii. 206 ‘Why now, d—n me,’ said Sam, ‘if this ayn't devilish droll—quizzy in extreme.’

1799 Helen Sinclair II. xvi. 37 Those d—'d quizzy looking women don't belong to you?

1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 84 A quizzy couple, self-proclaimed as man and wife.

1920 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 14 Sept. 4/4 I've never asked the reason why, I've tried not the [read to] be quizzy, Into the cause I'll never pry.

1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 158 ‘You're either one way or the other!’ ‘A quizzy little bitch, anyhow!’ ‘—that's unfair.’

1955 D. Niland Shiralee 86 I don't want to be quizzy, Mac, but, if it's a fair question what's the drum?

1978 O. White Silent Reach xii. 127 Don't be so quizzy, David..Mr. Sinclair needs a drink, not a cross-examination.

1995 Observer (Nexis) 25 July 55 If anyone is quizzy or pious enough to ask what you've read, you can claim it was a kind of research.