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English
Pronunciation
Noun
greaze
- (MLE, slang) Offensive and abusive language; contumely.
Don't talk greaze to me.
2011 April 3, “Normal”, in Blue Battlefield, performed by Merky ACE:Yeah, I spit greaze and I do not care
2015 May 4, “Man Don't Care”performed by Jme:How could a man with a uni degree / Be bussing up mic and chatting this greaze?
2019 October 31, “Family”, in Mic Righteous: I Am Reckless, performed by Mic Reckless:Do your family back it, mine'll casually dash you in the boot / So don't be chatting greaze to me or this will happen to / You, you and you
2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 15:Maybe Creeper wouldn't have done it if all the mandem hadn't been out on the block, soaking up the sun. But they were and Bloogz talked greaze, he didn't show man the slightest bit of respect, so Creeper had to do suttin.
2023 July 14, “Massacre”, in Beautiful and Brutal Yard, performed by J Hus:Heard them talk greaze, but I didn't care / Won't take long to make him disappear
- (MLE, slang) Excellence.
2017 March 18, “KMT”, in More Life, performed by Drake:Life for my bruddas is deep / Long as they all on they feet / Long as they pockets is greaze (greaze!)
- Obsolete spelling of grease.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 144, column 1:Greaze that's ſweaten / From the Murderers Gibbet, throw / Into the Flame.
Verb
greaze (third-person singular simple present greazes, present participle greazing, simple past and past participle greazed)
- Obsolete spelling of grease.
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “greaze”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “greaze n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “greaze n.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present