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Buzzy vs Fuzzy - What's the difference?

buzzy | fuzzy |

As adjectives the difference between buzzy and fuzzy

is that buzzy is having a buzzing sound while fuzzy is covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme fuzzy wuzzy was a bear .

As a noun fuzzy is

an individual flake of fuzzies.

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

    fuzzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals. Mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
  • Vague or imprecise.
    • My recollection of that event is fuzzy .
  • Not clear; unfocused.
    • I finally threw out a large stack of fuzzy photos.

    Derived terms

    * fuzzily * fuzziness * fuzzy logic * fuzzy mathematics * fuzzy set * fuzzy control * fuzzy concept * fuzzy relation

    Noun

    (fuzzies)
  • an individual flake of fuzzies
    • You've got a fuzzy on your coat.