quizzle

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make a whizzing sound
    — As soon as he finished speaking, Ngoh stood up and marched out of the farmland, but his name continued to quizzle in the men's lips— the same story-listeners to whom he used to narrate a sexual incident between himself and the Manager's wife.
  2. To ponder
    — As long as there are people to quizzle over tweedle-dee and tweedledum and to appeal to the ignorance and prejudice of the legislators, it is possible that the word "ammonia" may become an obsolete term in fertilizer analysis in spite of the fact that ammonia may continue to be the real form of the greater part of the nitrogenous plant bought and sold in the trade.
  3. To suffocate dialectal

词形变化

quizzles present,singular,third-person quizzling participle,present quizzled participle,past quizzled past

词源

From quiz (“to whiz”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
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