Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Filled with or as if with a buzzing sound: a field abuzz with snowmobiles; a room abuzz with talk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Buzzing; filled with buzzing sounds.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. In a buzz; buzzing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. noisy like the sound of a bee
Etymologies
- a- (“in such a manner”) + buzz (“to drone”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The blogosphere is kind of abuzz with the notion that this was a political hit on Eliot Spitzer.”
“And the whole electrical fraternity is kind of abuzz, because now Westinghouse is going to have what he ` s lacked in his fight with Edison, and that is the motor.”
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
“And I do not care despite the fact that, as I have read, "media outlets" covering this event were "abuzz" re: this very topic.”
“the NYTimes ran "abuzz"...at the onset a superb blogging spot that alas was ruined by the cut and paste.”
“abuzz" with rumors that NBC wants to dump its golden boy chief programmer Wherein E!”
“Within minutes of the Giants' defeat, Twitter was abuzz with sarcastic thank you notes for Big Blue.”
“For nearly two years, the country's gilded salons have been abuzz with chatter that the "end of the Berlusconi era" is nigh.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Italy, Only Berlusconi Still Retains Confidence
“Titarpur is one of New Delhi's largest effigy markets, and it is now abuzz with artisans preparing Ravana demon king figures for Dussehra Festival.”
“All this has bond markets and bankers abuzz, though they're easily excited.”
The Wall Street Journal: Federal Reserve Considers Whether to Twist Again
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘abuzz’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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Because I like them: A -- B
abacinate, aberdevine, ablepsy, abuccinate, acarology, acipenserine, abactor, adamantine, addressin, aeoline, ahimsa, agelast and 151 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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What the Dickens!
Words and phrases coined or made popular by Charles Dickens.
Sources: http://thewordmaven.wordpress.com...Scrooge, Pecksniffian, Pickwickian, Faginesque, Bumble, Dolly Varden, Uriah Heap, Dickensian, micawber, podsnappery, A-1, ain’t and 18 more...
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simple & useful6
vaporize, potentiality, lamentation, finite, hobbling, whiffed, accessorizing, negligible, amplification, grumbly, trumpeting, snares and 65 more...
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DoLike
a few favourites
pertain, elude, brouhaha, chap, jazz, cracking, mooch, tremendous, ethos, what, aperitif, sanguine and 20 more...
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Double zee
fizzle, dazzle, gizzard, jazz, mozzarella, nozzle, puzzle, sizzle, buzz, dizzy, fizzy, fizz and 19 more...
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Zz....
Fuzzy! Fizzy! And lots of pizzazz!
puzzle, pizza, piazza, nuzzle, nozzle, swizzle, frizz, drizzle, dazzle, pizazz, sizzle, mizzenmast and 70 more...
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cosmican's Words
multifarious, offbeat, resurgence, stupendous, apotheosis, abuzz, altruism, ostensible, exemplar, dawns, tranquility, candid and 28 more...
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