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breeze

1[breez] noun, verb, breezed, breez⋅ing.
–noun
1. a wind or current of air, esp. a light or moderate one.
2. a wind of 4–31 mph (2–14 m/sec).
3. Informal. an easy task; something done or carried on without difficulty: Finding people to join in the adventure was a breeze.
4. Chiefly British Informal. a disturbance or quarrel.
–verb (used without object)
5. (of the wind) to blow a breeze (usually used impersonally with it as subject): It breezed from the west all day.
6. to move in a self-confident or jaunty manner: She breezed up to the police officer and asked for directions.
7. Informal. to proceed quickly and easily; move rapidly without intense effort (often fol. by along, into, or through): He breezed through the task. The car breezed along the highway.
–verb (used with object)
8. to cause to move in an easy or effortless manner, esp. at less than full speed: The boy breezed the horse around the track.
9. breeze in, Slang.
a. to win effortlessly: He breezed in with an election plurality of 200,000.
b. Also, breeze into or out. to move or act with a casual or careless attitude: He breezed out without paying attention to anyone.
10. breeze up, Atlantic States. to become windy.
11. shoot or bat the breeze, Slang.
a. to converse aimlessly; chat.
b. to talk nonsense or exaggerate the truth: He likes to shoot the breeze, so don't take everything he says seriously.

Origin:
1555–65; earlier brize, brise north or northeast wind; cf. D bries, East Fris brîse, F brize, Sp, Pg, Catalan brisa, It brezza; orig. and path of transmission disputed


breezeless, adjective
breezelike, adjective


1. See wind 1 .
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breeze

  1. n.
    an easy task. : Nothing to it. It was a breeze.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

breeze 
1565, "north or northeast wind," from O.Sp. briza "cold northeast wind;" in W.Indies and Spanish Main, the sense shifting to "northeast trade wind," then "fresh wind from the sea." Eng. sense of "gentle or light wind" is from 1626. An alternate possibility is E.Fris. brisen "to blow fresh and strong." The slang for "something easy" is Amer.Eng., c.1928; breezeway is 1931, Amer.Eng.; breezy "easygoing, jovial" is from 1870.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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