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Pizze vs Pize - What's the difference?

pizze | pize |

As nouns the difference between pizze and pize

is that pizze is (rare) while pize is pox; pest; used as an imprecation.

As a verb pize is

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

pizze

English

Noun

(head) (p)
  • (rare)
  • * 1938 : Giuseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller , p321
  • *:…they manufacture the detestable tarts called pizze , very popular in this part of the world.
  • * 1957 : Armando T. Perretta, Take a Number , p82
    • Twice a week his mother baked bread, and twice a week there were pizze fritte for breakfast instead of cocoa and stale bread.
  • * 1973 : Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi et alii & Partito Comunista Italiano, Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser , p121
    • The city seemed like one gigantic fry-shop, with ‘zeppole’, ‘pizze’ and ‘calzoni’ sizzling on every street-corner.
  • * 1999 : Elizabeth David, Italian Food , p115
    • The variety of pizze'' is immense. The true Roman ''pizza , for instance, is made with onions and oil, no tomato.
  • * 2000 : Matthew Evans, Italy: World Food , p2
    • The most exquisite pizze are cooked in a forno a legna (woodfired oven).
  • * 2004 : Anna Del Conte, The Classic Food of Northern Italy , p203
    • Umbria is rich in paste, pizze , savoury torte , minestre and polenta dishes.
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    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).