feeze

/fiːz/

verb 9
noun 3
forms 5

verb9

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(dialect) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
- 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. — 1859
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(dialect) To beat; to chastise.
- Come, will you quarrel? I will feeze you, sirrah. — 1610
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(dialect) To cause to swing about.
- 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. — 1845
(dialect) To swing about in the wind; to flare (as a candle)
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(Scotland) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.
- For forty years—like Rob the Ranter, I've feezed about my rhymin' chanter' Blawn up the bag, and cock'd my bonnet, And tried to "croon an ault Scots sonnet," — 1845
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(Scotland) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.
- In short, Tibbie made maist praiseworthy efforts to feeze her fingers oot o' my loof as lang as I held them fast. — 1864
(Scotland, figurative) To insinuate.
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(dialect, no longer used) To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.
- 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[…] — 1839
(figurative, no longer used) To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.

noun3

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(dialect, US) A state of worry or alarm.
- “Don't git in a feeze, uncle Tib;—you can't help your head, I dare say;[…]” — 1825
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(dialect, US) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.
- […]though you haue fetched your feaze, yet to looke well ere you leape. — 1577
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(Scotland, no longer used) A device for wedging items into a tight space.
- The Dean and assessors —unanimoslie condishended and agreied upon that ane compitent number of feezes be made for packing of pleding. — 1674

forms

feezed · foze · fozen · feezing · feezes