noun
Meaning 1
A state of worry or alarm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
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Standard Lemma guide
feeze
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/fiːz/
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rhymes with -iːz
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homophone: fees
noun
Meaning 2
A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
Qualifier: also fetch one's feeze
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noun
Meaning 3
A device for wedging items into a tight space.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 4
To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete, often, transitive
Qualifier: also feeze away
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verb
Meaning 5
To beat; to chastise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To cause to swing about.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive, transitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To cause to swing about.
To swing about in the wind; to flare (as a candle)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive, transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, also, dialectal, transitive
Qualifier: on; up; on; up
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verb
Meaning 10
To insinuate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, broadly, dialectal, figuratively
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verb
Meaning 11
To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, dialectal, intransitive, transitive
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Synonyms: tease out, unsnarl, disentangle, feeze, unravel, untangle
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verb
Meaning 12
To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, dialectal, figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 13
Pronunciation spelling of freeze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, alt-of, dialectal, pronunciation-spelling
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History
Etymology
From Middle English fese, from the verb (see below).
From Middle English fesen, from Old English fēsian, fȳsian (“to drive away, put to flight”), variants of fēsan, fȳsan (“to hasten, rush; to incite, stimulate, send forth, drive away”), of disputed origin. Doublet of faze.
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.