feezing

Verb (1)

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

1. (dialectal, obsolete, often, transitive, also feeze 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]1839, Mary Palmer, edited by Theophila Gwatkin, A Devonshire Dialogue, page 15
2. (dialectal, transitive) To beat; to chastise.
   • Come, will you quarrel? I will feeze you, sirrah.1610, Ben Johnson, The Alchemist
3. (dialectal, intransitive, transitive) 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, Alexander Smart, “Poor Carlo's elegy”, in Rambling rhymes, page 237
   1. (dialectal, intransitive, transitive) To swing about in the wind; to flare (as a candle)
4. (dialectal, intransitive) 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, Orson Squire Fowler, Matrimony: As Taught by Phrenology and Physiology, page 417

Verb (2)

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

1. (Scotland, also, dialectal, transitive, on, up) 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 passes1825, James Bissett, An Attempt to delineate Ceres Fair

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