Meaning of pize | Babel Free

Definitions

Used in various imprecatory expressions: a pest, a pox.

British, archaic, countable, regional, uncountable

Examples

“Pize on 'em, they never think beforehand of any thing;—and if they commit Matrimony, 'tis as they commit Murder; out of a Frolick: And are ready to hang themſelves, or to be hang'd by the Law, the next Morning.— […]”

“Ah! a pize upon it! Dick, after all, was the man.”

“Dame, what makes your ducks to die? / What the pize ails 'em? What the pize ails 'em?”

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