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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"Then what is he in a feaze about money for?"
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan
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
She called me "dear," an' do you know, My heart jes skipped a beat, an' tho' I'm hard to feaze, I'm free to yip p.
From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery
You can't feaze Vee, though, when she starts in to be folksy.
From Torchy As A Pa by Ford, Sewell
And no rain or mud or chill will ever feaze me.
From The Desert of Wheat by Grey, Zane
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.
Brother Tom made his jokes, and Gertrude "feazed," to use her own word.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
It was a bad mess, but Leonidas wasn't feazed a bit.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
Challoner was not feazed; it was the answer he expected.
From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton
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
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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