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Pize vs Poze - What's the difference?

pize | poze |

As verbs the difference between pize and poze

is that pize is to strike or hit (a person) while poze is obsolete form of lang=en.

As a noun pize

is pox; pest; used as an imprecation.

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).
  • poze

    English

    Verb

    (poz)
  • * 1864 , Samuel Lucas, Mornings of the recess, 1861-4 (volume 1, page 101)
  • But Pompey's party declined that proposal, while Cæsar was pozing a menacing enigma at Ravenna.
    (Webster 1913)