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For a new sample of 8 weak-line-quasars (WLQs) we report a sensitive searchin 20 intranight monitoring sessions, for blazar-like optical flux variationson hour-like and longer time scale (day/month/year$-$like). The sample consistsexclusively of the WLQs that are not radio$-$loud and have either beenclassified as `radio-weak probable BL Lac candidates' and/or are known to haveexhibited at least one episode of large, blazar$-$like optical variability.Whereas only a hint of intra$-$night variability is seen for two of these WLQs,J104833.5$+$620305.0(z = 0.219) and J133219.6$+$622715.9 (z = 3.15),statistically significant inter$-$night variability at a few per cent level isdetected for three of the sources, including the radio-intermediate WLQJ133219.6$+$622715.9 (z = 3.15) and the well known bona$-$fide radio$-$quietWLQs J121221.5$+$534128.0 (z = 3.10) and WLQ J153259.9$-$003944.1 (z = 4.62).In the rest$-$frame, this variability is intra-day and in the far$-$UV band. Onthe time scale of a decade, we find for three of the WLQs large brightnesschanges, amounting to 1.655$\pm$0.009, 0.163$\pm$0.010 and 0.144$\pm$0.018 mag,for J104833.5$+$620305.0, J123743.1$+$630144.9 and J232428.4$+$144324.4,respectively. Whereas the latter two are confirmed radio-quiet WLQs, theextragalactic nature of J104833.5$+$620305.0 remains to be well established,thanks to the absence of any feature(s) in its available optical spectra. Thepresent study forms a part of our ongoing campaign of intranight opticalmonitoring of radio quiet weak-line quasars, in order to improve theunderstanding of this enigmatic class of Active Galactic Nuclei and to lookamong them for a possible tiny, elusive population of radio-quiet BL Lacs.

Multi-epoch intra-night optical monitoring of 8 radio-quiet BL Lac candidates