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A QUIZZER. A creature, who, without possessing real wit or humour, affects to turn others into ridicule, by an insolent affectation of the talent. The thing is generally found among fashionable young men, which (to use a very common, yet a very apposite expression) has more money than wit, plumes itself upon birth or connexion, and endeavours to make up by noise, turbulence, and privileged contradiction, what it wants in real knowledge and solid understanding. It is sometimes seen at a military mess, and about the purlieus of St. James's.
From: A new and enlarged MILITARY DICTIONARY, or, ALPHABETICAL EXPLANATION of TECHNICAL TERMS: containing, among other matter, A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF FORTIFICATION, TACTICS, &c. Also the various FRENCH PHRASES AND WORDS that have an immediate or relative connection with the British Service, or may tend to give general information on military subjects in either language. By CHARLES JAMES, author of The Regimental Companion, Comprehensive View, &c. &c. Published 1802.
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fascinating thing to be found in a dictionary
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"and endeavours to make up by noise, turbulence, and privileged contradiction, what it wants in real knowledge and solid understanding" - I wanted to add a reference to the current U.S. President at first, but then it seemed perhaps self-evident.
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