different between quizzery vs quiz

English

Etymology

quiz +? -ery

Noun

quizzery (countable and uncountable, plural quizzeries)

1. (archaic) mockery; teasing or playing pranks

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1780s, of unknown origin.

• The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz.
• The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780).
• Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.
• Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it.
• Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect.
• A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?z/, [k?w??z]
• Rhymes: -?z

Noun

quiz (plural quizzes)

1. (dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
   • 1833, Maria Edgeworth, Moral Tales, volume 1, page 204:

     I tell you I am going to the music shop. I trust to your honour. Lord Rawson, I know, will call me a fool for trusting to the honour of a quiz.
2. (dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
3. A competition in the answering of questions.
4. (education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

quiz (third-person singular simple present quizzes, present participle quizzing, simple past and past participle quizzed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
2. (transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3. (transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
4. (transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
5. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To play with a quiz. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

References

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English quiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kvis/, [k?vis]
• Homophone: quiz'

Noun

quiz c (singular definite quizzen, plural indefinite quizzer)

1. quiz (competition in the answering of questions)

Inflection

Related terms

• quizze ("to quiz")

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

quiz m (plural quizzen, diminutive quizje n)

1. quiz

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwiz/

Noun

quiz m (uncountable)

1. quiz

Italian

Noun

quiz m (invariable)

1. quiz

Derived terms

• telequiz

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English quiz.

Noun

quiz m (plural quizs)

1. (Jersey) quiz

Polish

Alternative forms

• kwiz

Etymology

From English quiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwis/

Noun

quiz m inan

1. quiz (competition in the answering of questions)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) quizowy

Further reading

• quiz in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• quiz in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

quiz m (plural quizes)

1. quiz (question-answering competition)

Verb

quiz

1. Obsolete spelling of quis

Spanish

Etymology

From English quiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?kwi?/, [?kwi?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?kwis/, [?kwis]

Noun

quiz m (plural quiz)

1. (television) quiz show