Whiz vs Fuzz - What's the difference?
whiz | fuzz |
To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
To throw or spin rapidly.
(vulgar, slang) To urinate.
A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
(informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
An act of urination; a wiz.
(UK, slang, uncountable) amphetamine.
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:
As verbs the difference between whiz and fuzz
is that whiz is to make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air while fuzz is to make fuzzy.As nouns the difference between whiz and fuzz
is that whiz is a whirring or hissing sound (as above) while fuzz is a frizzy mass of hair or fibre or fuzz can be the police.whiz
English
Alternative forms
* whizzVerb
- We whizzed in the bushes.
Noun
(whizzes)- I have to take a whiz .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* whiz kidfuzz
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
