Did you mayhaps mean quiz?
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Examples
“– The old quoz is generous, however, I hear, says another, pray do you find him so?”
“Now, road warrior William Least Heat-Moon returns to the nation's back roads, seeking out the hidden histories, chitchat memoirs and other nuggets of roadside nostalgia and mystery that he calls quoz, from a rarely used word meaning "something strange or absurd.”
“These off beat, and out of time, serendipitous discoveries are referred to as "quoz".”
“The "quoz" (rhymes with Oz) in the title means "anything strange, incongruous or peculiar; at its heart is the unknown, the mysterious.”
“As defined by Mr. Heat-Moon (the pen name adopted before the publication of "Blue Highways" by William Trogdon, who says he is of English, Irish and Osage Indian descent), "quoz" is a noun "referring to anything strange, incongruous, or peculiar; at its heart is the unknown, the mysterious.”
“– I've always heard he was a quiz, says another, or a quoz, or some such word; but I did not know he was such a book-worm.”
“Not at all Jacob; only I don't know why. they call me an old quiz and quoz for; never having offended them; which I take rather unkind; especially not knowing what it means.”
“Upon my honour,' cried Lymnere, piqued, 'the quoz of the present season are beyond what a man could have hoped to see!”
“Indiana by the arm, and, with some displeasure, said, 'Why, what does the old quoz mean?”
“Ace Reeder So that brings us to quoz: a noun, both singular and plural, referring to anything strange, incongruous, or peculiar; at its heart is the unknown, the mysterious.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quoz’.
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phrontistery - q
from phrontistery.info
quoz, quotuple, quotum, quotition, quotiety, quotidian, quotha, quotennial, quotatious, quorate, quondam, quomodocunquize and 227 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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Trump that synonym!
Better alternatives for common words.
ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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(the Mind) Baubles
Shiny, tinkly-trinkety miniments.. (a place to hang my windchime-words).
afterlithe, omniana, hiplings, littératrice, blisters, bathysphere, belletristic, deliquium, fissiparity, glister, glossolalia, jaspure and 40 more...
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"Q" words
words that inquire into the nature of things
cheese, who, whose, whom, what, why, which, when, whence, whither, where, whether and 56 more...
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Avenue Q
quockerwodger, quackle, quacksalver, quango, quaternion, quetzalcoatl, questpersand, quagga, quipo, quatrayle, quill pig, quimby and 16 more...
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Interesting ones
As a second language, thank you.
ergophobia, quoz, pope, wobble, logos, vertebrate, masterpiece, mu, billabong, mojo, merkin, milieu and 76 more...
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LHirshman “A noun, both singular and plural, referring to anything strange, incongruous or peculiar; at its heart is the unknown, the mysterious.” Jun 10, 2009
seanahan This word seems odd and ridiculous, but I haven't decided whether I like it. Aug 12, 2008
she An odd or ridiculous person or thing; people or things of this kind. Aug 9, 2008