Always wondered whereunfazed came from... faze (v.) 1830, - TopicsExpress



          

Always wondered whereunfazed came from... faze (v.) 1830, American English, said to be a variant of Kentish dialect feeze to frighten, alarm, discomfit (mid-15c.), from Old English fesian, fysian drive away, send forth, put to flight, from Proto-Germanic *fausjan (cognates: Swedish fösa drive away, Norwegian föysa). Related: Fazed; fazing. Bartlett (1848) has it as to be in a feeze in a state of excitement. There also is a nautical verb feaze to unravel (a rope), from 1560s.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:19:12 +0000

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