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quizzing

quizzing

English

Verb

quizzing

  1. present participle of quiz

Noun

quizzing (plural quizzings)

  1. (dated) The act by which somebody is quizzed, or teased.
    • 1846, Richard Cobbold, The History of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl (page 83)
      He knew that he had spoken the truth, though it had cost him a severe pang; and whilst he felt much grief at the thought of the jeers and quizzings he should meet with []