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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1893-1908

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QUIZ, v. To interrogate, cross-question; to ask inquisitive questions (Sc. 1903 E.D.D.). Gen.Sc. See also Whiz. Also in Eng. and Ir. dialects and in U.S. Slg. 1893 R. M. Fergusson My Village 99:
She would gossip away with keen relish, and quiz her visitors as to what was going on in the village.e.Lth. 1908 J. Lumsden Th' Loudons 81:
“Was she of Castle Clew?” syne quizzed the Queen.

[The form seems due to the conflation of Eng. quiz, an oddity, a practical joke(r), with inquisitive. Cf. quiz, a general-knowledge competition, which is now adopted in Eng. from U.S.]

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