Fuzz vs Peachfuzz - What's the difference?
fuzz | peachfuzz |
A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
* 1895 , Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly , page 352:
A blurred image.
(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
(obsolete) A state of befuddlement.
* 1784 , Jonathan Swift, "Journal to Stella", The works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift , page 54:
To make fuzzy.
To become fuzzy.
(dated) To make drunk.
The police.
* 2009 , , 0:26:17:
(rare, nonstandard) The fuzz found on the skin of a peach.
(informal) The soft, scanty beard of an adolescent male.
As nouns the difference between fuzz and peachfuzz
is that fuzz is a frizzy mass of hair or fibre or fuzz can be the police while peachfuzz is (rare|nonstandard) the fuzz found on the skin of a peach.As a verb fuzz
is to make fuzzy.fuzz
English
(wikipedia fuzz)Etymology 1
* Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source * Some dictionaries suggest aNoun
- His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.
- I think I'm in a fuzz , and don't know what I ?ay, I never ?aw the like.
Verb
(es)- (Wood)
Etymology 2
UnknownNoun
(-)- Let's get the hell out of here before the fuzz turns up