QUIZZING

Traducere în limba română

quizzing I. adjectiv

de zeflemea, de persiflare; batjocoritor.

quizzing II. substantiv

1. batjocură, persiflare, zeflemea.

2. privire cu coada ochiului.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

You are quizzing me and Miss Anderson.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I, who knew him well, could tell from his wan cheeks and his restless fingers that he was at his wit’s ends what to do; but no stranger who observed his jaunty bearing, the flecking of his laced handkerchief, the handling of his quizzing glass, or the shooting of his ruffles, would ever have thought that this butterfly creature could have had a care upon earth.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’m afraid some one else has fed me most of my life, she laughed, trying bravely to enter into the spirit of his quizzing, though I could see a terror dawning and growing in her eyes as she watched Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

That night he looked as if he would like the fun of quizzing her figures and pretending to be horrified at her extravagance, as he often did, being particularly proud of his prudent wife.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

When at last, about midday, he did descend, he was so fine with his curled hair, his shining teeth, his quizzing glass, his snow-white ruffles, and his laughing eyes, that I could not take my gaze from him.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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