Feeze

Quick meaning: Feeze is a noun meaning (now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.

Meaning

(now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.

More Meanings

1. (now dialect and US, also fetch one's feeze) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.
2. (transitive) To beat; to chastise.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.
4. (intransitive) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
5. (transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.
6. (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.
7. (obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.

Example Sentences

Why what a feeze you air in, to be sure!

[…]as hee that leapeth forward fetcheth his feeze a great way backe[…]

[…]though you haue fetched your feaze, yet to looke well ere you leape.

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

Word Forms

• feezes
• feese
• feezing
• feezed

Synonyms for feeze

Depending on context, synonyms include unsnarl, disentangle, unravel, untangle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fease, pheese, feese, fuzz, fumishness, fanteague.

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