Zoomier vs Zoomie - What's the difference?
zoomier | zoomie |
(zoomy)
(childish) of something that goes zoom!
*{{quote-book
, title=Househusband
, author=Ad Hudler
, year=2004
, page=284
, passage=We play a game she calls zoomy rocket, which usually draws some nasty maternal stares.}}
*{{quote-journal
, journal=Kiplinger's Personal Finance?
, year=Dec 1970
, volume=24
, number=12
, page=6
, passage=Zoomy little race cars
(mechanics) of something that looks like it would go zoom: sleek, speedy, streamlined
:zoomy but faded paint jobs
*{{quote-journal
, journal=Popular Mechanics
, year=May 1992
, page=39
, passage=In our recent visits to the Frankfurt and Tokyo auto shows, we saw the zoomy shapes we expect at major shows.}}
*{{quote-journal
, journal=Car and Driver
, year=2007
, page=59
, volume=52
, passage=Does the zoomy new look of the TT [automobile] equate with a corresponding improvement in performance?}}
(slang) Stylish, as a zoomy car, or as someone who looks like they would drive a zoomy car
*{{quote-book
, title=The circle home
, author=Edward Hoagland
, year=1960
, page=191
, passage=He caught a downtown bus and felt real good, real zoomy . }}
*{{quote-book
, title=Getting into fashion
, author=Melissa Sones
, year=1984
, page=237
, passage=Her "mod zoomy' little showcases," as she describes her boutiques, are as mod and ' zoomy as Johnson herself.}}
(photography) Obviously characteristic of a zoom lens
:relies upon zoomy close-ups
:wobbly, zoomy , headachey shots
*{{quote-journal
, journal=American anthropologist
, year=1977
, volume=79
, page=760
, passage=However, the photography is at moments too poorly exposed, too zoomy , and the camera positioned too closely, for the footage to be useful}} (military, slang) A member of the air force.
* 2006 , Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four (page 9)
* 2007 , John Sheppard, Tales of the Peacetime Army
* 2008 , Rob Krott, Save the Last Bullet for Yourself (page 89)
As an adjective zoomier
is (zoomy).As a noun zoomie is
(military|slang) a member of the air force.zoomier
English
Adjective
(head)zoomy
English
Adjective
(er)zoomie
English
Noun
(en noun)- Then it's purely a coincidence that the last two zoomies to arrive here got assigned to Vung Tau, while every ROTC grad in the last month has been sent to god-awful Army camps, right?
- The BX was huge, and the quality of the stuff was better than that of the Fort McClellan PX even though zoomies made the same amount of money that we did.
- A zipper head (an air force zoomie with his hair parted in the middle) walked up to me.