Buzzy vs Busy - What's the difference?
buzzy | busy |
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. }}
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
* Shakespeare
Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
* 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
* On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
To rush somebody.
A police officer.
As adjectives the difference between buzzy and busy
is that buzzy is having a buzzing sound while busy is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.As a verb busy is
to make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.As a noun busy is
{{cx|slang|UK|Liverpool|derogatory|lang=en}} A police officer.buzzy
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Derived terms
* buzzily * buzzinessbusy
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Adjective
(er)- a busy street
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- She is too busy to have time for riddles.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.