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Quizzed vs Squizzed - What's the difference?

quizzed | squizzed |

As verbs the difference between quizzed and squizzed

is that quizzed is past tense of quiz while squizzed is past tense of squizz.

quizzed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (quiz)

    • quiz

    English

    (wikipedia quiz)

    Noun

    (quizzes)
  • Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
  • One who or that which quizzes.
  • (dated) An odd or absurd person or thing.
    • (Smart)
    (Thackeray)
  • * 1803' (published '''1816 ), (Jane Austen), ''(Northanger Abbey) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm Chapter 7]
    • Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.
  • A competition in the answering of questions.
    • We came second in the pub quiz .
  • A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

    • Derived terms

    * quiz kid * quizzer * quizzery * quizzical * quizzify * quizzy

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  • * Thackeray
    • He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.
  • (archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
  • To question closely, to interrogate.
  • To instruct by means of a quiz.

    • squizzed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (squizz)

    • squizz

    English

    Alternative forms

    * squiz

    Noun

    (es)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A .
  • * 2002 , Chris Rowthorn, Alex Landragin, Kate Daly, Victoria , Lonely Planet, page 297,
    • The building itself is worth a squizz ; its modern metal forms and structures evoke maritime themes.
  • * 2009 , William Efford, Picaroon , page 77,
    • “That lot heard about the place and came in here on their way to an Antarctic research station. But mostly, it?s just curious folks that drop by for a squizz —like you, for instance.”
  • * 2012 , Annette Evalyn Swain, Suicide Angels and the Silent Terrorists: A Story About Bullying , iUniverse, page 82,
    • “I'll get you to have a look at the paper work and just have a squizz through some patient?s case notes, so you get an idea of how we document our daily nursing units of care.”
  • * 2012 , , The Bat , page 328,
    • I think it would be a good idea to have a squizz at Toowoomba?s place.

    Verb

  • To look, to examine.
  • * 1885 , Emily Cruwys Sharland, Ways and means in a Devonshire village, a book for mothers? meetings , page 19,
    • “That?s just according to how you bring them up, Jane,” Betsy replied ; “if they?d had porridge from the first, they?d have eaten it fast enough ; and it isn?t good to allow children to be squizzing (looking) into their food and picking it over.”
  • * 1998 , , A Cross of Stars , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • He liked to see them laughing, enjoying themselves, squizzing at the antics of whitefellers in party mood.
  • * 1999 , Lindsay Charman-Love, Top Hat and Taiaha'', ''Huia Short Stories 3 , Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 44,
    • Others were off at the shops getting ice blocks or squizzing at the boats down at the wharf.
  • * 2010 , Linzy Harris, Perdita , Paragon Publishing, UK, page 79,
    • She presented me with a bag, and when I squizzed inside I saw it contained five boxes of cigarettes.

    References

    * Australian slang dictionary from Koala Net