Meaning

adjective playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); - Lawrence Durrell

adjective perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

originEtymology tree English quiz Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English quizzical From quiz + -ical.

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