breeze
1- a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- a wind of 4–31 miles per hour (2–14 m/sec).
- Informal. an easy task; something done or carried on without difficulty: Finding people to join in the adventure was a breeze.
- Chiefly British Informal. a disturbance or quarrel.
- (of the wind) to blow a breeze (usually used impersonally with it as subject): It breezed from the west all day.
- to move in a self-confident or jaunty manner: She breezed up to the police officer and asked for directions.
- Informal. to proceed quickly and easily; move rapidly without intense effort (often followed by along, into, or through): He breezed through the task. The car breezed along the highway.
- to cause to move in an easy or effortless manner, especially at less than full speed: The boy breezed the horse around the track.
- breeze in, Slang.
- to win effortlessly: He breezed in with an election plurality of 200,000.
- Also breeze into/out.to move or act with a casual or careless attitude: He breezed out without paying attention to anyone.
- breeze up, Atlantic States. to become windy.
- shoot/bat the breeze, Slang.
- to converse aimlessly; chat.
- to talk nonsense or exaggerate the truth: He likes to shoot the breeze, so don't take everything he says seriously.
Origin of breeze
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Related Words for breezing
current, gust, whiff, breath, air, waltz, glide, zip, sail, cruise, hurry, waft, flurry, draft, puff, airflow, zephyr, flit, move, sweepExamples from the Web for breezing
Historical Examples of breezing
Roberts answered, breezing in with an apology which I nipped.
The Million-Dollar SuitcaseAlice MacGowan
All this time the wind, out of the north-west, was breezing up.
The Mutiny of the ElsinoreJack London
It's breezing up, and it'll be cooler than it is in the house.
An Arrow in a SunbeamVarious
Jerry said, breezing by the waiting reporters with a grin of triumph.
The Delegate from VenusHenry Slesar
It was thro' the chance, afforded by an hour of breezing sea-scape recreation, that I discovered the mysterious chronicle.
The Spook BalladsWilliam Theodore Parkes
breeze
1- a gentle or light wind
- meteorol a wind of force two to six inclusive on the Beaufort scale
- informal an easy task or state of easebeing happy here is a breeze
- informal, mainly British a disturbance, esp a lively quarrel
- shoot the breeze informal to chat
- to move quickly or casuallyhe breezed into the room
- (of wind) to blowthe south wind breezed over the fields
Word Origin for breeze
breeze
2- an archaic or dialect name for the gadfly
Word Origin for breeze
breeze
3- ashes of coal, coke, or charcoal used to make breeze blocks
Word Origin for breeze
Word Origin and History for breezing
breeze
1560s, "north or northeast wind," from Old Spanish briza "cold northeast wind;" in West Indies and Spanish Main, the sense shifting to "northeast trade wind," then "fresh wind from the sea." English sense of "gentle or light wind" is from 1620s. An alternative possibility is that the English word is from East Frisian brisen "to blow fresh and strong." The slang for "something easy" is American English, c.1928.
breeze
"move briskly," 1904, from breeze (n.). Related: Breezed; breezing.
Idioms and Phrases with breezing
breeze
In addition to the idiom beginning with breeze
- breeze in
also see:
- hands down (in a breeze)
- shoot the breeze