Pize vs Poze - What's the difference?
pize | poze |
Pox; pest; used as an imprecation.
* 1695 , ,
* 1818 , James Ford (editor), The Suffolk garland: or, A collection of poems, songs, tales, ballads ,
(transitive, dialect, Yorkshire) To strike or hit (a person).
* 1864 , Samuel Lucas, Mornings of the recess, 1861-4 (volume 1, page 101)
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is that pize is to strike or hit (a person) while poze is obsolete form of lang=en.As a noun pize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)- 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.
- 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
poze
English
Verb
(poz)- But Pompey's party declined that proposal, while Cæsar was pozing a menacing enigma at Ravenna.