Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mass or coating of fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles; down.
- intransitive verb To cover with fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles.
- intransitive verb To make blurred or indistinct.
- intransitive verb To become blurred or obscure.
- noun The police.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fly off in minute particles.
- noun Fine downy particles, as on the surface of some fruits, as the peach; loose fibers, as on the surface of cloth, or separated from it by friction; loose volatile matter.
- noun A puffball; a fuzzball.
- To intoxicate; fuddle; fuzzle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make drunk.
- noun Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
- noun a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.
- intransitive verb To fly off in minute particles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, dated, with "the" The
police . - noun A
frizzy mass of hair or fibre. - noun A
blurred image. - noun computing The
random data used infuzz testing . - verb transitive Make
fuzzy . - verb intransitive Become
fuzzy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- noun a hazy or indistinct representation
- noun filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
- noun the first beard of an adolescent boy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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What the fuzz is all about the man himself said he didnt deserved it.
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I strongly recommend everyone to go and read the complete series so you can understand what the fuzz is all about.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy Headed to the Big Screen « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The S pitch of a fuzz is posted outside, only across a building signifying which this was his handiwork.
Smallville Season 9 Episode 8: Wonder Twins admin 2009
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The S pitch of a fuzz is posted outside, only across a building signifying which this was his handiwork.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Given all the resources that hes got plus Ridley as a mentor, I think all fuzz is overated.
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That little dark bit that looks like left-over fuzz is actually a bit of string wound on and glued down.
September 2007 2007
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This particular bundle of fuzz is so ludicrously charming that he managed to draw a crowd out in the parking lot where we met for the exchange.
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Howard doesn't know the gig's a phony, and either calls the fuzz or doesn't call the fuzz.
Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994
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UG's resident aussie / leb maybe try the moen fuzz. good price for a decent pedal. just looked it up and its called the fuzz moo. when you go back to the store, plug in a big muff and turn the tone knob all the way to the right and see if it doesn't fit the bill.
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It looks like the white fuzz is going to take out the rest of the world that’s left.
zacharyr commented on the word fuzz
Mudhoney has an album, "March to Fuzz"
December 6, 2006
zacharyr commented on the word fuzz
peach fuzz buzz
December 6, 2006
bilby commented on the word fuzz
"Despite the venal patronage of Elektra, Transatlantic, Polydor, EMI, Track, Apple, the Inland Revenue and Radio 1, the Underground remains uncharted, unreliable, unrewarding and irresponsible. If everyone who clamours to be of it today were to deny it tomorrow it would exist still. Miss Nicholson may tell the fuzz anything she pleases - her cunt knows better."
- 'The Million-Dollar Underground', Germaine Greer in Oz, 1969.
March 27, 2008