Pronounced: BO-nuh-par-tih-zuhm, noun
Notes: Not quite what you might think
Yesterday’s word
The word quoz means “an odd person or thing”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1700s
Background / Comments
I know people who are odd, and even one who describes himself as odd, but I didn’t know that we had a word for it. I hope I remember and start to use our word. The origin is not known: it is speculated that it is a variant of ‘quiz’ — of course, it’s also possible that ‘quiz’ is a variant of our word.
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