Etymograph

English

quizzacious

Quizzacious comes from English quiz ‘to mock’.

  1. English1500–presentquiz1‘to mock’
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1792quizzacious1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English quizzacious
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1792, Jeremy Bentham: “I […] made a little quizzacious attack upon the…”.

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentquizWiktionary, English quizzacious‘to mock’
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1792quizzaciousWiktionary, English quizzacious. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1792, Jeremy Bentham: “I […] made a little quizzacious attack upon the…”

Formed from quiz + -acious

Every English word from English quiz

Today it means

adj Mocking or satirical.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “quizzacious”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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