DEFINITION
noun1 a gentle wind.• [ with modifier ] a wind of force 2 to 6 on the Beaufort scale (4–27 knots or 4.5-31 mph).2 informal a thing that is easy to do or accomplish: traveling through London was a breeze.
verb [ no obj. ] informalcome or go in a casual or lighthearted manner: I breezed in as if nothing were wrong.• deal with something with apparently casual ease: the computer has the power to breeze throughhuge documents |he breezed to victory.
PHRASES
shoot the breeze.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: probably from Old Spanish and Portuguese briza ‘northeastern wind’ (the original sense in English).
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