quizzy
adjEtymology From quiz + -y. Sense 2 possibly influenced by English inquisitive.
1
Dated Odd; eccentric.
- […] as in all other balls, there was a certain sprinkling of fine ladies, and quizzy gentlemen, as well as of quizzy ladies and fine gentlemen, so that the several partnerships were as it might be, ill or well-arranged; […]1811, Edward Nares, Thinks I-to-myself:
2
Rare Inquisitive, curious.
- When Drea and I talked to the police yesterday, they were extra quizzy about you.” “Why?” Amber shrugs. “They made it seem like you're a suspect.”2011, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Silver is for Secrets:
- Derived terms
- quizziness