different between feeze vs feaze

English

Etymology

From Old English f?sian (“to drive away, put to flight”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?z

Homophone: fees

Noun

feeze (plural feezes)

1. (obsolete) fretful excitement
2. a race; a run; a running start, as for a leap
3. vexation; worry; fret

Verb

feeze (third-person singular simple present feezes, present participle feezing, simple past and past participle feezed)

1. to drive off; frighten away; put to flight
2. to drive; compel; urge
3. to beat; whip; chastise

   • I felt him In my small guts; I'm sure he has feez'd me!

4. to vex; worry; harass; plague; tease; disturb
5. to defeat; settle or finish
6. to fret; be in a fume; worry
7. to sneeze
8. to untwist; ravel out
9. to dawdle; loiter
10. (Scotland) to screw; twist; tighten by screwing.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Related terms

• faze
• feaze
• pheeze
• feaze

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English fesen (“to drive, incite, put into action; frighten, terrify, prosecute, punish”), from Old English f?san, f?san (“to hasten, impel”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijan? (“to make ready”).

Verb

feaze (third-person singular simple present feazes, present participle feazing, simple past and past participle feazed)

1. Alternative form of fease
2. Alternative form of faze

   There's mighty little that feazes you.

References

Anagrams

• ezafe, ez?fe