feeze

verb /fiːz/

1. To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.

   transitive

   Amang the lads and lasses; What squeezing and feezing Wi' ilka ane that passes

   What pushing and crushing

2. To insinuate.

   figuratively

3. To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.

   intransitive, transitive

   In short, Tibbie made maist praiseworthy efforts to feeze her fingers oot o' my loof as lang as I held them fast.

4. To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.

   figuratively, obsolete, transitive

Where it comes from

From Scots feeze, from Old Scots fize (“screw”, noun), from Dutch vijs (“screw”), from Middle Dutch vise (“screw, windlass, winch”), from Old French vis, viz (“vise, vice”), from Latin vītis (“vine”). Doublet of vice, vise, and withe.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry feeze (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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