After one of the punches to the dog's head, the dog seems to hesitate and look quizzical as if he recognizes the fighter.
This sense survives today in the word "quizzical".
Needless to say, this got a lot of quizzical replies.
The phenomenon of uncertainty takes a quizzical glimpse at quarks and a world in constant flux.
But they have been quizzical.
Ives is pulling a quizzical face, as if he had actually learned something today.
I am a little quizzical about the magic figure of 10 minutes.