v. transitive — Newfoundland, especially Games
to throw or toss, especially in a game.
Type: 2. Preservation — The term bazz describes the act of throwing or tossing. It appears to be used most often in reference to children's games (see the 1891 and 1956 quotations), when playing with items such as marbles (see the 1896 quotation) or buttons (see the 2014 quotation); thus, written attestations of bazz appear to be scarce, coinciding with the term's association with a generally oral semantic domain. Although COD-2 marks the origin of bazz as "unknown" (see COD-2, s.v. "bazz"), the term likely derives from British English, defined in EDD as 'to throw with force' (see EDD, s.v. "bazz" (v)(1)). In this respect, the Newfoundland term could be viewed as a minor semantic change in terms of down-toning the original meaning.
See also COD-2, s.v. "bazz", which is marked "Cdn (Nfld)" and DNE, s.v. "bazz" (v).