Definition of Quizzery

1. Noun. (archaic) mockery; teasing or playing pranks ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quizzery

1. the act of interrogation [n QUIZZERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quizzery

quiz program
quiz show
quizbook
quizbooks
quizlike
quizmaster
quizmasters
quizmistress
quizmistresses
quizshow
quizshows
quizzed
quizzer
quizzeries
quizzers
quizzery (current term)
quizzes
quizzical
quizzicalities
quizzicality
quizzically
quizzicalness
quizzify
quizzing
quizzings
quizzism
quizzy
quo
quo pro quid

Literary usage of Quizzery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"Confess quaint quizzery, though it makes on« wince— SIR A. WYLIE. — I bar what wounds a LADY or a PRINCE.— MR NORTH. —Is, after all, not quite a hanging ..."

2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"But Lord Buckhurst had served too severe an apprenticeship to the quizzery of White's It was mortifying enough to Lord Buckhurst to feel himself so ..."

3. Stories of American Life; by American Writers by Mary Russell Mitford (1830)
"... not sensitive—for he must stand quizzery ; not chivalrous—for then he must take sides with the weak ; not conscientious —for then he must discountenance ..."

4. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1832)
"The former has this advantage, that, when detected, its enormity may be so great as to enable the person to pass it off as a piece of quizzery, which can ..."

5. Granby: A Novel by Thomas Henry Lister (1826)
"He began with a little gentle quizzery of the ladies Man- vers, (nobody was th.en immediately within hearing) ; and presently observed, after allowing them ..."

6. The Legendary, Consisting of Original Pieces, Principally Illustrative of by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1828)
"... exquisite quizzery so mingled, that no one could tell whether it was likelier that thou wouldst die harlequin or hero—master of the art of elegant ..."

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