[f. QUIZ v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the vb.
1797. The Quiz, No 31. 208. On Quizzing.
1802. G. Rose, Diaries (1860), I. 508, note. He made a most brilliant speech with much quizzing on Mr. A.
1830. D’Israeli, Chas. I., III. v. 75, note. A remarkable instance of this malicious persiflage, or what we now call quizzing.
1862. ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., ix. 402. That indirect and gentlemanly quizzing—which is so much relished by the House of Commons.
Comb. 1805. Edin. Rev., VI. 184. He acquits himself of all share in a quizzing scene.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), xviii. 213. Thinking his Critic a capital Quizzing-stock.
