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feeze

noun
/fiːz/

Etymology

From Scots feeze, from Old Scots fize (“screw”, noun), from Dutch vijs (“screw”), from Middle Dutch vise (“screw, windlass, winch”), from Old French vis, viz (“vise, vice”), from Latin vītis (“vine”). Doublet of vice, vise, and withe.

  1. derived from vītis — “vine”
  2. derived from vis
  3. derived from vise — “screw, windlass, winch”
  4. derived from vijs — “screw”
  5. derived from fize — “screw”
  6. borrowed from feeze

Definitions

  1. A state of worry or alarm.

    • “Don't git in a feeze, uncle Tib;—you can't help your head, I dare say;[…]”

  2. A rush, impetus, or a violent impact

    A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.

    • […]though you haue fetched your feaze, yet to looke well ere you leape.
    • Dabscote no harme receiued by his fall But lightly vp himselfe againe doth rease, Fiue Almains streight they light vpon him all At once: and beare him downe with mightie feas.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. To drive off or away

      To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.

      • 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]
      • 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[…]
      • but you Republicans are so much accustomed to this uncertainty upon many other questions that it need not feeze you at all.

    2. To beat

      To beat; to chastise.

      • Come, will you quarrel? I will feeze you, sirrah.
      • [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.
      • An he proud with me, I'll feeze his pride.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.
      • he just did an honest day's work, each day, without worrying and "feezing" about the winter.
      • “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.”

    5. To twist or turn with a screw-like motion

      To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.

      • What pushing and crushing Amang the lads and lasses; What squeezing and feezing Wi' ilka ane that passes
      • 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,"
      • The superintendent stated that he had tried it, or examined it, the day before and could not budge or feeze it.

    6. To insinuate.

    7. To untwist

      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.
      • The thread that joins us baith will sune Feeze oot and snap in twa!
      • I can't feeze it out among these strange entanglements of circumstance and personalities.

    8. To rub hard

      To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.

    9. Pronunciation spelling of freeze.

      • “How does the snow come;" he asks. “Mama says God makes it snow. Does he keep it up there, and all the rain, too. I s'd t'ink he'd feeze. Mama al'as says, come in Willie, you'll feeze in 'e snow."
      • “Fine weather for feezing! fine weather for feezing! answered the latter, with a mocking look which Sylvandire caught, and which frightened her.
      • When we walked—I carried Linda and held Carol's hand—Carol would whisper to herself over and over, “Going to feeze to deff, going to feeze to deff.”

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA