feese
English
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English fese (“a blast, a rush, a burst”), a derivative of Middle English fesen (“to put to flight”). More at faze.
Noun
feese (plural feeses)
- (obsolete) The short run before a leap; a run-up.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “feese”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Pennsylvania German
Etymology 1
Verb
feese
- to face
Etymology 2
Verb
feese
- to faze
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