English

Verb

quizzle ‎(third-person singular simple present quizzles, present participle quizzling, simple past and past participle quizzled)

1. To make a whizzing sound
   • 1992, Komben Emmanuel Ngwainmbi, Dawn in rage:

     As soon as he finished speaking, Ngoh stood up and marched out of the farmland, but his name continued to quizzle in the men's lips— the same story-listeners to whom he used to narrate a sexual incident between himself and the Manager's wife.

2. To ponder
   • 1924, The Oil Miller - Volumes 19-22:

     As long as there are people to quizzle over tweedle-dee and tweedledum and to appeal to the ignorance and prejudice of the legislators, it is possible that the word "ammonia" may become an obsolete term in fertilizer analysis in spite of the fact that ammonia may continue to be the real form of the greater part of the nitrogenous plant bought and sold in the trade.

   • 2005, David Poyer, A Country of Our Own:

     Ker quizzled again at Simon's effeminate walk. But reaching no untoward conclusions.

   • 2015, David Greygoose, Brunt Boggart:

     He came from here, as much as you or me. Look at him now, running with the girlen, wrestling with the boys. He's one of us, sure enough.” “Then what was he doing in the woods?” Old Nanny Nettleye quizzled.

3. (dialectal) To suffocate