bleeze

English

Etymology

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Noun

bleeze (plural bleezes)

1. (Scotland) A blaze.
   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, page 72:

     I'd got a fair bleeze going the night before so's to keep midges at bay.

Verb

bleeze (third-person singular simple present bleezes, present participle bleezing, simple past and past participle bleezed)

1. (Scotland) To blaze.
   • 1824, The Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine; and Annals of Philosophy‎^[1], page 173:

     […] I arose to a bleezing fire and a boiling kettle […]