a. [f. QUIZ v.1 + -ABLE.] That may be quizzed. Hence Quizzability.
1797. The Quiz, No. 13. 85. Every body seems to set me down as a butt made on purpose to be ridiculed,… as if I had ‘This man is quizable,’ pasted in large letters on my back.
1849. Blackw. Mag., LXVI. 687. It may be something satirical, if they see anything quizzable—something about yourself.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. vii. I. 616. Even book-men … are good for something, more especially if rich mines of quizzability turn-out to be workable in them.
So Quizzacious a., given to quizzing. Quizzatorial a., of a quizzing character. Quizzee, one who is quizzed.
1810. Bentham, Packing (1821), 179. Another epigram, still more pointed and quizzatorial than the Italian one.
1825. R. P. Ward, Tremaine, I. xxiv. 184. For quizzing to take effect, there must be two parties,… the quizzer and quizzee.
c. 1830. Bentham, Wks. (1838–43), X. 285. I made a little quizzacious attack upon the bishop.
1840. New Monthly Mag., LVIII. 526. Taking care to make their remarks … loud enough to be heard by the quizzees.
