pize

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noun

Used in various imprecatory expressions: a pest, a pox.

First used 17th c.Scrabble 15
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Meanings

pize1

nounpize (countable and uncountable, plural pizes)

plural pizes

  1. UKarchaiccountableregionaluncountableUsed in various imprecatory expressions: a pest, a pox.First known use 17th c.

    Ah! a pize upon it! Dick, after all, was the man.

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “He is Visited by Pallet; Contracts an Intimacy with a New Market Nobleman; and is by the Knowing Ones Taken in”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 338, column 1
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    Pize on 'em, they never think beforehand of any thing;—and if they commit Matrimony, 'tis as they commit Murder; out of a Frolick: And are ready to hang themſelves, or to be hang'd by the Law, the next Morning.— […]

    1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 77

    Dame, what makes your ducks to die? / What the pize ails 'em? What the pize ails 'em?

    1818, James Ford, editor, The Suffolk Garland: Or, A Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads

pize2

verbpize (third-person singular simple present pizes, present participle pizing, simple past and past participle pized)

present singular third person pizes · participle present pizing · participle past pized · past pized

  1. YorkshiredialectaltransitiveTo strike or hit (a person).

Origin

Unknown; perhaps a variant of pest, pox.

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Chicago

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