quiz

[A word which is said to have originated in the following joke: Daly, manager of the Dublin theater, laid a wager that he would introduce into the language within twenty-four hours a new word of no meaning. Accordingly on every wall, or all places acce ible, were chalked up the four mystic letters, and all Dublin was inquiring what they places meant. The wager was won, and the word remains current in our language. ( Brewer .)] 1. Something designed to puzzle or turn one into ridicule; a hoax, a jest. 2. One who quizzes or banters another. 3. An odd-looking person; an original. "I cannot suffer you to make such a quiz of yourself."