quizzicle

noun
/ˈkwɪzɪkəl/

Etymology

From quiz + -icle (diminutive suffix). The term is associated with, and possibly originates from, an old joke: "if a quiz is a quizzicle, what's a test?" (or variations). Later reanalyzed as (or recoined from) a blend of quiz + article.

Definitions

  1. A short quiz.

    • My teacher used to call quizzes "quizzicles." You don't want to know what he called "tests." #myweirdteacher
  2. Misspelling of quizzical.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quizzicle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA