[Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz

[Stephen Goranson]

1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, second ed., chapter xiii, page 97:

"....what is called a queer phiz, occasioned by a long chin, an hook nose, and high cheek bones, rendered him on the whole a very fit subject for mirth and pleasantry."

This, I suggest, is a forerunner of the contraction quiz.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433107874129&seq=125

Stephen Goranson
Durham, NC



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