quizzle

present singular third person quizzles · participle present quizzling · participle past quizzled · past 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

   Ker quizzled again at Simon's effeminate walk. But reaching no untoward conclusions.

   2005, David Poyer, A Country of Our Own

   2 more examples

   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 greater part of the nitrogenous plant bought and sold in the trade.

   1924, The Oil Miller - Volumes 19-22

   He came from here, as much as you or me. Look at him now, running with the girlen, wrestling with the boys. He's one of us, sure enough.” “Then what was he doing in the woods?” Old Nanny Nettleye quizzled.

   2015, David Greygoose, Brunt Boggart

3. dialectalTo suffocate