Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bad spellings of feeze.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Local To comb; also, to beat; to worry.
- noun Obs. or Local Fretful excitement.
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- noun Alternative form of
feeze .
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Examples
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II. iii.215 (60,2) pheese his pride] To _pheese_ is to _comb_ or _curry_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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a pun on _pheese_ ( "to chastise or pay one tit for tat"), and means
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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