feeze
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.Examples: "All this time, they were chattering; but at last I thought, by the sound of their voices, that they must be walking away, and I never was in such a feeze in all my life, in case they should be gone before I could get up the wall ; and when I did get up it, sure enough, gone they was!"; "“Don't git in a feeze, uncle Tib;—you can't help your head, I dare say;[…]”"; "[Crispin buys a lottery ticket and splashes out in anticipation of winning.] The next morning Violetta [his daughter] was paraded through the streets by a smart clerk in the neighbourhood[…]At the turn of the next street they met Crispin himself, with a visage of alarming length. He was fresh from the office, where they told him he had drawn a—blank!—The smart beau sneaked off in a feeze, Crispin and his goods were sold out by the sheriff[…]"USdialectal
2. (now dialect and US, also fetch one's feeze) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.Examples: "[…]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."; "This tale being bleated out and heard, this cornuted husband of the sheep's heads fetching a feeze backward (like the Roman ram, to push forward with the more violent and villainous force) ran with all his horniferous strength at the poor fire-felon and stroke his brow-butters full in Prometheus's forehead that the very print remaineth in his front, and doth still in some of his race to this day;"USdialectal
3. (obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.Examples: "setting up the most expedient agricolary instruments of wains, carts, slades, with their several devices of wheels and axle-trees, plows and harrows of divers sorts, feezes, winders, pullies, and all other manner of engines fit for easing the toyl and furthering the work;"; "The Dean and assessors —unanimoslie condishended and agreied upon that ane compitent number of feezes be made for packing of pleding."Scotlandobsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete, often with about, also feeze away) To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.Examples: "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."dialectalobsoleteoftentransitive
2. (transitive) To beat; to chastise.Examples: "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."dialectaltransitive
3. (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.Examples: "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."dialectalintransitivetransitive
4. (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.dialectalintransitivetransitive
5. (intransitive) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.Examples: "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.”"dialectalintransitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.Examples: "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."Scotlandalsodialectaltransitive
2. (figurative, by extension) To insinuate.Scotlandbroadlydialectalfiguratively
3. (transitive, intransitive) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.Examples: "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."Scotlanddialectalintransitivetransitive
4. (obsolete, transitive, figurative, with at or up) To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.Scotlanddialectalfigurativelyobsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary