breezen

English

Etymology

From breeze +‎ -en.

Verb

breezen (third-person singular simple present breezens, present participle breezening, simple past and past participle breezened)

1. (rare, nonstandard, intransitive) To grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy
   • 1903, George Savary Wasson, Cap'n Simeon's Store, page 52:

     We're going to have a brush out of this, and resk it, you!" declared Job, beating his hat against the counter inside. "It's thick o' snow a'ready, and breezening on stiddy from out here to the s'utheast."

   • 1906, Thomas Nixon Carver, How Ought Wealth to be Distributed, page 749:

     This wind breezens on at every hand's turn now, and I wisht I could know for certain whether Uncle Pelly made out to pull them trawls of hisn, out there on the 'Garden' to-day.

   • 1908, Home from Sea, page 191:

     'T wa'n't so very long neither afore she was carrying consid'ble of a bone in her teeth, for quick's ever the wind really once took holt to the east'ard, it breezened up quite fast, and kept pricking on all night steady, and all next day long, till come sundown again it took three men at the hellum to gurge her along, and the sweat dreened off'n the chins of them three a-near one perfect stream!

   • 1975, John Gould, Lillian Ross, Maine lingo: boiled owls, billdads & wazzats, page 23:

     […] it then breezens up, it is too much of a good thing.