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quizzicle

/ˈkwɪzɪkəl/

quizzicle noun: a short quiz. Also the misspelling of quizzical.

Noun

quizzicle (plural quizzicles)

  1. (rare) A short quiz.
    • OOP in school consists mostly of memorizing a bunch of vocabulary terms like "encapsulation" and "inheritance" and taking multiple-choice quizzicles on the difference between polymorphism and overloading. Not much harder than memorizing famous dates and names in a history class, OOP poses...2005 December 29, Joel Spolsky, “The Perils of JavaSchools”, in More Joel on Software: […], Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, published 2008, →ISBN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024, page 57
    • My teacher used to call quizzes "quizzicles." You don't want to know what he called "tests." #myweirdteacher[2013 September 18, @jimmyfallon [Jimmy Fallon], Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2024

Also used as

quizzicle is also the misspelling of quizzical.

Examples of quizzicle in a sentence

  • And when they weren't snapping they were on BuzzFeed, the Best Time Sink of 2012 with all of the quizzicles and listicles.2016 February 2, Matt Burns, “Revisit The Crunchies Of Yesteryear Ahead Of The 9th Annual Crunchies”, in TechCrunch, archived from the...
  • I think it's just one person creating an infinite number of quizzicles.2024 January 29, u/LibraryLuLu, “Clock The Tea: The Show vs Actual Villain”, in Reddit, r/rupaulsdragrace, archived from the original on 23...

Forms of quizzicle

pluralquizzicles

Origin of quizzicle

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.

Questions about quizzicle

What does quizzicle mean?
Quizzicle means a short quiz.
How do you use quizzicle in a sentence?
And when they weren't snapping they were on BuzzFeed, the Best Time Sink of 2012 with all of the quizzicles and listicles.
What part of speech is quizzicle?
Quizzicle is a noun.
How do you pronounce quizzicle?
Quizzicle is pronounced /ˈkwɪzɪkəl/.
What is the plural of quizzicle?
The plural of quizzicle is quizzicles.

Words near quizzicle in the dictionary

  1. quizzical
  2. quizzicalities
  3. quizzicality
  4. quizzically
  5. quizzicalness
  6. quizzicle
  7. quizzicles
  8. quizzification
  9. quizzifications
  10. quizzified
  11. quizzifies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quizzicle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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