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Buzzier vs Buzzer - What's the difference?

buzzier | buzzer |

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)

  • buzzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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 citation
  • , 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 citation
  • , 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. }}

    Derived terms

    * buzzily * buzziness

    buzzer

    English

    (wikipedia buzzer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And wants not buzzers to infect his ear / With pestilent speeches of his father's death.
  • *
  • 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:
  • I flipped my wallet open on her desk and let her look at the buzzer pinned to the flap.