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Zee vs Mzee - What's the difference?

zee | mzee |

Mzee is a related term of zee.



As nouns the difference between zee and mzee

is that zee is something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.mzee is an elder (old person).

As a verb zee

is to sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's..

As an article zee

is eye dialect of from=primarily French-accented lang=en.

zee

English

Etymology 1

1670s: variant of .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.
  • (colloquial) (usually plural ) Sleep (as in "get some zees").
    • See also
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    Synonyms
    * zed (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) * izzard (Scotland, South Asia)

    See also

    * zeta

    Verb

  • (informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
  • (rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

    • Etymology 2

    Article

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    mzee

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (East Africa) An elder (old person).
  • * 2003 , Ward S Just, The American Ambassador?
    • ...every President since Teddy Roosevelt saw Africa in the faces of her mzees , in their English suits or tribal robes...
  • * 2005 , Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro?
    • It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position.
  • * 2006 , Edward I Steinhart, Black poachers, white hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya?
    • ...we arranged an impromptu interview with this reluctant and less than candid local mzee , who lived near the Tsavo boundary.

    Anagrams

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