- a variation of feeze.
feaze
1 Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
verb
Etymology
Origin of feaze
1560–70; akin to Dutch vezelen to fray, Middle Dutch veze frayed edge, Old English fæs fringe
Example Sentences
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Shucks, I've bit on so many of them rumors that they don't feaze me no more.
From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Mulford, Clarence Edward
Just shut your teeth hard, and say over and over again that you ain't goin' to let anything feaze you.
From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Douglas, Alan
"Then what is he in a feaze about money for?"
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan
You couldn’t feaze him, not even if a bomb had been dropped in the church vestibule.”
From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.
The report of things out of order usually sets landlords in a feaze, but you keep as serene as the moon with your tenant's complaints.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
It was a herculean job, but that never feazed Sherlock Holmes, and he went at it tooth and nail.
From R. Holmes & Co. by Bangs, John Kendrick
That was a knockout, we all thought; but it never feazed Ole.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
What if he did draw blood, that wound wouldn’t have feazed the caribou even a little bit.
From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Boone, Silas K.
The hard problems of his job never feazed him.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward
Then he said: "You feazed me a little at first; but I think I know now what has happened."
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
Nevertheless, far from feazing him, Challoner felt that in some subtle way the question fitted in with his scheme of things.
From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton
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