Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with fuzz.
- adjective Of or resembling fuzz.
- adjective Not clear; indistinct.
- adjective Not coherent; confused.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with fuzz; liable to give off fuzz: as, a fuzzy caterpillar.
- Like fuzz or down; fluffy: as, a fuzzy nap; a fuzzy fringe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Not firmly woven; that ravels.
- adjective Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered with
fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals. Mentioned in the popularnursery rhyme Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear. - adjective
Vague orimprecise . - adjective Not
clear ;unfocused . - noun an individual
flake offuzzies
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out
- adjective covering with fine light hairs
- adjective indistinct or hazy in outline
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My recipe for a defence review would be to adopt a much more 'fuzzy' approach (after the term fuzzy logic).
The Guardian World News Hélène Mulholland 2010
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My recipe for a defence review would be to adopt a much more 'fuzzy' approach (after the term fuzzy logic).
The Guardian World News Hélène Mulholland 2010
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The changes are being driven by students 'lagging performance on international tests and mathematicians' warnings that more than a decade of so-called reform math — critics call it fuzzy math — has crippled students with its de-emphasizing of basic drills and memorization in favor of allowing children to find their own ways to solve problems.
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This also enables what you call fuzzy, but my guess it's just an evolutionarily approach to handle new or defect brain regions / layers.
GigaOM 2009
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The Lancet, the critics pounced, again honing in on what they called fuzzy math.
MotherJones.com 2008
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There are lots of important things in fuzzy territory, hard to assign to one regiime.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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He said: I was still a bit fuzzy from the surgery but reached for my glasses and put them on and I couldn't see a thing.
Boing Boing 2009
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: smitty needs to join fuzzy nuts at the bar.
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There are Grizzly bears in both places too, and I'm happy to carry extra horsepower when ol 'fuzzy is around.
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There are Grizzly bears in both places too, and I'm happy to carry extra horsepower when ol 'fuzzy is around.
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Give someone a warm fuzzy and they are likely to give one to another person, making a chain of positive interactions.
Warm Fuzzies and Cold Pricklies at the school counselor's office pugs_are_death 2025
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When it came time for my therapist to act his out, he actually got on the floor and got on his hands and knees pretending to be a wolf. It was a nice warm fuzzy end to a difficult session.
seanahan commented on the word fuzzy
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
December 24, 2006
wolfy commented on the word fuzzy
Maybe Fuzzy Wuzzy was another missing link in the evolution chain..
January 27, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word fuzzy
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a skinhead bear?
Same old story, polar bears tryin' to keep the black bear down.
January 27, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word fuzzy
As in "fuzzy logic".
August 24, 2007