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Pest vs Pize - What's the difference?

pest | pize |

As nouns the difference between pest and pize

is that pest is plague while pize is pox; pest; used as an imprecation.

As a verb pize is

(transitive|dialect|yorkshire) to strike or hit (a person).

pest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
  • An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
  • An annoying person.
  • (British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
    • Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

    Synonyms

    * (creature ) bug

    Related terms

    * pester * pesthole * pesthouse * pesticidal, pesticide * pestiferous * pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    pize

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pox; pest; used as an imprecation.
  • * 1695 , ,
    • Madam, you deserve a good husband, and 'twere pity you should be thrown away upon any of these young idle rogues about the town. Odd, there's ne'er a young fellow worth hanging--that is a very young fellow. Pize on 'em, they never think beforehand of anything; and if they commit matrimony, 'tis as they commit murder, out of a frolic, and are ready to hang themselves, or to be hanged by the law, the next morning.
  • * 1818 , James Ford (editor), The Suffolk garland: or, A collection of poems, songs, tales, ballads ,
    • Dame, what makes your ducks to die?
    What the pize' ails 'em? What the ' pize ails 'em?
    Dame, what makes your chicks to cry?
    What the pize ails 'em now?

    Verb

  • (transitive, dialect, Yorkshire) To strike or hit (a person).