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
"Merely that yonder oil-shoot turned into a mud-bath doesn't feaze him," chuckled Jack to Mark.
From On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake by Rockwood, Roy
"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.
Your mother is anxious to have you come home, but I tell her that a little thing like pulling a professor out of the fire isn't likely to feaze a Garwood!
From The New Boy at Hilltop by Barbour, Ralph Henry
That was a knockout, we all thought; but it never feazed Ole.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
The really great person is the one who even in a panic does not lose his head, and the next best thing to not being feazed at danger is, I believe, to be literally paralyzed.
From On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Aldrich, Mildred
Challoner was not feazed; it was the answer he expected.
From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton
He eyed her sharply to see if she were "feazed."
From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
The hard problems of his job never feazed him.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward
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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