quiz

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
2. One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
3. A competition in the answering of questions.
4. A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

Verb

1. To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
2. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3. To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
4. To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
5. (obsolete) To play with a quiz.

Sînonîm

test

question

❓

query

examine

inquire

examination

interrogate

investigate

try

ask

riddle

inquiry

exam

puzzle

essay

enigma

mock

mocker

enquiry

mystery

survey

try out

interrogation

questioning

find out

cross-examine

peer

peruse

pop quiz

practical joke

prove

pry

quest

rally

re-examination

scan

scoff

scoffer

screen

screen out

sift

sneer

sound

🔉

strain

study

think about

tickler

take an exam

trail

trial of strength

vet

brain teaser

test paper

small test

observation

research

stress

examination questions

take a test

search

short test

afflict

anatomize

beset

canvas

canvass

case

check out

consider

consideration

conundrum

eccentric

enquire

explore

go over

grill

hearing

inquiring

inquisition

inspect

interrogatory

interview

laugh at

look into

make fun

mockery

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/kwɪz/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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 (The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin).
* 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.