quizとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /kwɪz/
• 韻: -ɪz

名詞

quiz (複数形 quizzes)

1. (dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Smart to this entry?)

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

   • 1796, Fanny Burney, Camilla: or, A picture of youth, by the author of Evelina, page 99:

     I've always heard he was a quiz, says another, or a quoz, or some such word ; but I did not know he was such a book-worm.

   • 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.

   • 1803, Jane Austen, chapter 7, in Northanger Abbey‎^[1], published 1816:

     Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.

2. A competition in the answering of questions.

   We came second in the pub quiz.

3. (education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

派生語

動詞

quiz (三人称単数 現在形 quizzes, 現在分詞 quizzing, 過去形および過去分詞形 quizzed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Thackeray, The History of Pendennis:

     He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     'Now, Puddock, back him up—encourage your man,' said Devereux, who took a perverse pleasure in joking; 'tell him to flay the lump, splat him, divide him, and cut him in two pieces—'
     It was a custom of the corps to quiz Puddock about his cookery […]

2. (transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3. (transitive) To question closely, to interrogate.
4. (transitive) To instruct by means of a quiz.
5. (transitive, obsolete, まれに) To play with a quiz. (Can we add an example for this sense?)