quizzle

Verb

quizzle (third-person singular simple present quizzles, present participle quizzling, simple past and past participle quizzled)

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.1992, Komben Emmanuel Ngwainmbi, Dawn in rage
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...1924, The Oil Miller - Volumes 19-22
   • Ker quizzled again at Simon's effeminate walk. But reaching no untoward conclusions.2005, David Poyer, A Country of Our Own
3. (dialectal) To suffocate