- 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
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No matter what conditions Dyspeptic come to feaze, The best of all physicians Is apple-pie and cheese!
From A Little Book of Western Verse by Eugene Field
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 Alan Douglas
He is in a great feaze about some property that he thinks is owing to him somewhere, and he has been giving me a long detail of matters and things connected with the business.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
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 Alice B. Emerson
Why should one strive and cry and get into a feaze about tyrants and liars?
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
That, as he had expected it to do, rather feazed the Happy Family for a few minutes.
From The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower
He might not have been afraid of a man–or a dozen men; no emergency–which he could talk out of–would have feazed him; but a man doesn’t feel like trying to talk down a skeleton!
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe
Our poor little battery, however, feazed them but little.
From S.O.S. Stand to! by Reginald Grant
It was a herculean job, but that never feazed Sherlock Holmes, and he went at it tooth and nail.
From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs
Then he said: "You feazed me a little at first; but I think I know now what has happened."
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
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 William Hamilton Osborne
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