quizzically,quiz, overwrite, write someone/thing off

It was not uncommon for friends to look at us quizzically when we enthusiastically recommended a “museum” as a great vacation destination. I think they just wrote us off as overeducated history geeks.

Two quizzed over five fire deaths

A man and a woman are being questioned on suspicion of murdering five children who died in a house fire in Derby.  

Q: (Reader)
I just read your feature last week about the new campaign for Colonial Williamsburg. Good story.
I am a biased observer. We were huge fans and frequent visitors when we lived in Atlanta (we are now on the West Coast). That said, this is a fitting shift in the foundation’s advertising emphasis.
It was not uncommon for friends to look at us quizzically when we enthusiastically recommended a “museum” as a great vacation destination. I think they just wrote us off as overeducated history geeks...

漫畫來源: Ted Goff

Definition of overwrite

verb (past overwrote; past participle overwritten)

[with object]

• 1write on top of (other writing):many names had been scratched out or overwritten
• Computing destroy (data) by entering new data in its place: an entry stating who is allowed to overwrite the file
• another term for overtype.

• 2write too elaborately or ornately:there is a tendency to overwrite their parts and fall into cliché

3 [no object] (usually as noun overwriting) (in insurance) accept more risk than the premium income limits allow.

overwrite
v., -wrote (-rōt'), -writ·ten (-rĭt'n), -writ·ing, -writes. v.tr.

1. To cover (something) with writing.
2. To write about in an artificial or an excessively elaborate, wordy style.
3. Computer Science.
   1. To destroy or lose (old data) by recording new data over it: accidentally overwrote an important document.
   2. To record (new data) on top of already stored data, thus destroying the old data: overwrote an updated document on top of an earlier draft.

v.intr.
To write artificial, excessively elaborate, or wordy prose.

write something off

• 1 (write someone/thing off) dismiss someone or something as insignificant:they were written off as a bunch of no-hopers

• 2cancel the record of a bad debt; acknowledge the loss of or failure to recover an asset:he urged the banks to write off debt owed by poorer countries
• British damage a vehicle so badly that it cannot be repaired or is not worth repairing.

quiz[quiz]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[kwíz]

[動]（〜zed, 〜・zing）(他)

1 ((主に米略式))〈人に〉簡単な［正規のものでない］テストをする

quiz the students on ［in］ math
数学の小テストをする.

2 〈人に〉（…について）あれこれ［しつこく］質問する［尋ねる］；〈人を〉尋問する((about ...))

quiz several suspects about the missing money
紛失した金について数人の容疑者を尋問する.

━━[名]（複 〜・zes）

1 ((主に米))簡単な試験, 小テスト

She gave us two pop quizzes in spelling last week.
先週スペリングの抜き打ちテストを2度やられた.

2 尋問, 取り調べ.

3 （遊びとしての）クイズ；アンケート；((主に英))（ラジオ・テレビの）クイズ番組（((米))quiz show ［program］）

a music quiz
音楽クイズ.

［ラテン語quī es（だれか）. ラテン語口頭テストの最初の文］

quiz・zer

[名]


quiz·zi·cal (kwĭz'ĭ-kəl) adj.

1. Suggesting puzzlement; questioning.
2. Teasing; mocking: "His face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air" (Lawrence Durrell).
3. Eccentric; odd.

quizzicality quiz'zi·cal'i·ty (-kăl'ĭ-tē) n.
quizzically quiz'zi·cal·ly adv.

[形]

1 奇妙な, こっけいな(comical).

2 尋ねるような, いぶかしげな；まごついた.

3 からかうような, ひやかしの(teasing).

quiz・zi・cal・ly

[副]

quizzical

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪzɪk(ə)l/

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Definition of quizzical

adjective

• (of a person’s expression or behaviour) indicating mild or amused puzzlement:she gave me a quizzical look
• rare amusingly odd or strange: one of the most quizzical movies ever made

Derivatives

quizzicality

Pronunciation: /-ˈkalɪti/

noun

quizzically

adverb

quizzicalness

noun