A fit of fretfulness. A colloquial, vulgar word in the United States.--Worcester. The adjective pheesy, fretful, querulous, irritable, sore, is provincial in England.--Forby. Also written feeze, which see.
·noun Fretful excitement. II. Pheese ·vt To <<Comb>>; also, to beat; to <<Worry>>. ...
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