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Pize vs Rize - What's the difference?

pize | rize |

As verbs the difference between pize and rize

is that pize is to strike or hit (a person) while rize is obsolete spelling of lang=en.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

    • rize

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=XIX Thus long the dore with rage and threats he bet, Yet of those fearfull women none durst rize , The Lyon frayed them, him in to let: 165 He would no longer stay him to advize,[*] But open breakes the dore in furious wize, And entring is; when that disdainfull beast Encountring fierce, him suddaine doth surprize, And seizing cruell clawes on trembling brest, 170 Under his Lordly foot him proudly hath supprest. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Max Pemberton, title=The Iron Pirate, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Go on, lay me right here as I lay now; but I'll rize agen you, and the day'll come when you'd give every dollar ye're worth to dig me up, and give me life agen." }}