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Hazee vs Razee - What's the difference?

hazee | razee |

As nouns the difference between hazee and razee

is that hazee is one who undergoes hazing while razee is (nautical) an armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.

As a verb razee is

(nautical) to cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.

hazee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who undergoes hazing.
  • * 1900 , The Independent (volume 52, issue 2)
  • In the testimony of the hazee appears the following: "That he had no objection to do what he did; that it was not forced upon him; they did not tell him to do anything; they asked him if he could and he said 'yes'
  • * 2006 , Jeremy Schaap, Cinderella Man (page 154)
  • Baer's antics — which included the time-honored hazing ritual known as the hotfoot, in which the hazee' s shoe is discreetly set on fire — masked his real intent: to develop a strategy to defeat Carnera.
  • * 2010 , William F. Fry, Sweet Madness: A Study of Humor (page 166)
  • Frequently, it all ends with the hazee feeling out of sorts—discouraged, frightened, angry, disgruntled.

    razee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
  • (Totten)

    Verb

  • (nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
  • (figurative) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
  • to razee a book, or an article
  • *1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
  • "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
    (Webster 1913)