Buzzier vs Buzzer - What's the difference?
buzzier | buzzer |
(buzzy)
Having a buzzing sound
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=March 11, author=Kyle Gann, title=Music Notes: Nicolas Collins plays the radio, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Collins shifts the slide, and the trumpet phrase gets faster and faster until it blurs into a buzzy pitch. }}
(informal) Being the subject of cultural buzz
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 21, author=Richard Siklos, title=Big Media’s Crush on Social Networking, work=New York Times
, passage=This time, my host asked me if I was part of LinkedIn, a buzzy Web site intended to link people with similar business interests. }}
One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.
* Shakespeare
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A device that makes a buzzing sound.
:* If you think you know the answer to the question, hit the buzzer as fast as you can.
A police badge.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 28:
As an adjective buzzier
is (buzzy).As a noun buzzer is
one who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.buzzier
English
Adjective
(head)buzzy
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Adjective
(er)citation
citation
Derived terms
* buzzily * buzzinessbuzzer
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(wikipedia buzzer)Noun
(en noun)- And wants not buzzers to infect his ear / With pestilent speeches of his father's death.
- I flipped my wallet open on her desk and let her look at the buzzer pinned to the flap.
