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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But a little thing like that didn't feaze him.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
Even so, Mawruss," Abe said, "that wouldn't feaze J.H.
From Worrying Won't Win by Glass, Montague
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
"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
She gets them, any way, and they don't seem to feaze her a particle.
From Peggy Stewart at School by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
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
He eyed her sharply to see if she were "feazed."
From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
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.
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
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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