feeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: fees
Forms: form: feezes
form: feezing
form: feezed
form: feezed
form: fease
form: feaze
form: feese
form: pheese
form: pheeze
form: phese
form: vease
form: veeze
Etymology: From Middle English fesen, from Old English fēsian, fȳsian (“to drive away, put to flight”), variants of fēsan, fȳsan (“to hasten, rush; to incite, stimulate, send forth, drive away”), of disputed origin. Doublet of faze.
Senses: examples: text: Gracious! what a hurly-burly 'twas! How the volks veased [gloss: Hurried, drove] out o' church—higgeldy piggeldy, helter skelter: zich jitting, [gloss: Pushing against each other], driving, and dringing. [gloss: Squeezing]
ref: 1839, Mary Palmer, edited by Theophila Gwatkin, A Devonshire Dialogue, page 15:
text: A Vriday I went to winding [gloss: Winnowing], and took the Boy wi' me, to cry turr, [gloss: An expression used in driving pigs], and vease away the pigs from nuzzling in the corn[…]
ref: 1839, Mary Palmer, edited by Theophila Gwatkin, A Devonshire Dialogue, page 30:
text: but you Republicans are so much accustomed to this uncertainty upon many other questions that it need not feeze you at all.
ref: 1906, Congressional Record, page 4351:
text: But the crows and squirrels and various birds called his attention from his work at about every second stroke of the hoe, and the questions I had to answer would have feezed Agassiz.
ref: 1910, The World To-day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, page 552:
text: That of itself set gossip flying, for Whitcroft, as he had said, was a talky place: but Dave knew and approved, so the evil hints with the tongue in the cheek never feesed me.
ref: 1913, Hamilton Drummond, Winds of God, page 78:
text: […] but as any old fighter will tell you there is nothing more discouraging than to discover that your most effective blows do not feeze your opponent, […]
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
text: Old Dunbar's heavy-lidded yellow eyes lighted on it and turned away. There was about as much encouragement in his leathery face as in my old camel Josephine's, when the gentlemen of her party think they're particularly entertaining. But d'you think that feezed Hustling Billy? He just waited.
ref: 1918 December 7, Miriam Michelson, “Such A Liar”, in Argosy Weekly, page 249:
text: But that did not feeze the old man; he said, “Well, we will put it in the Constitution.”
ref: 1938, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control, Comprehensive Flood-control Plans, page 953:
qualifier: also feeze away
glosses: To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.
raw_tags: with about
examples: text: Come, will you quarrel? I will feeze you, sirrah.
ref: 1610, Ben Johnson, The Alchemist:
text: [The characters are fighting.] Well:
[He] has given me my Quietus est; I felt him
In my small guts, I'm sure [he] has feez'd me:
This comes of siding with you.
ref: 1617, John Fletcher, “The Chances”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: An he proud with me, I'll feeze his pride.
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida:
text: He had not been squelched. he had not been feased by the feigned rebuke of the Hon. John Masterson McInnery.
ref: 1916 February, Jim Blythe, "The Corn-Cob Club", Public Service Magazine 20, H. J. Gonden, Chicago, page 48
text: At last in desperation the excited man fed the bird a strychnine pill. It ate it ev'ry bit, it feezed it not a whit, and the appetite was keener still.
ref: 1903, George Ade, The Sultan of Sulu: An Original Satire in Two Acts, page 8:
glosses: To beat; to chastise.
examples: text: When stormy winter shook the trees,
An' drumly dubs began to freeze,
An' Christmas times brought bread an' cheese,
An' routh o' whisky,
Auld Carlo then his tail would feeze
Sae keen an' frisky.
ref: 1845, Alexander Smart, “Poor Carlo's elegy”, in Rambling rhymes, page 237:
glosses: To cause to swing about.
glosses: To cause to swing about.
To swing about in the wind; to flare (as a candle)
examples: text: Not that mothers should neglect children for husband, but that they might be quite as well off with less of your feezing and fussing, and he much the better with more of your affections.
ref: 1859, Orson Squire Fowler, Matrimony: As Taught by Phrenology and Physiology, page 417:
text: he just did an honest day's work, each day, without worrying and "feezing" about the winter.
ref: 1900, Washington News Letter, page 698:
text: “There now,” admonished Lane, “don't you begirt tapping your foot, Mrs. Howland. You'll get all feezed up if you don't hold on to yourself.”
ref: 1923, Carolyn Wells, Wheels within Wheels:
glosses: To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
Related terms: faze