haze · noun, verb1
* The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century. * Possibly back-formation from hazy. * Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”).
haze · verb2
- Middle French · derived fromhaser“irritate, annoy”
- English todayhaze
Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.