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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mass or coating of fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles; down: the fuzz on a peach.
  2. v. To cover with fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles.
  3. v. To make blurred or indistinct: fuzzing the difference between the two candidates; worked quickly to fuzz up the details of the scandal.
  4. v. To become blurred or obscure.
  5. n. Slang The police.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Fine downy particles, as on the surface of some fruits, as the peach; loose fibers, as on the surface of cloth, or separated from it by friction; loose volatile matter.
  2. n. A puffball; a fuzzball.
  3. To fly off in minute particles.
  4. To intoxicate; fuddle; fuzzle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
  2. n. A blurred image.
  3. n. computing The random data used in fuzz testing.
  4. v. transitive Make fuzzy.
  5. v. intransitive Become fuzzy.
  6. n. slang, dated, with "the" The police.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To make drunk.
  2. n. Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
  3. v. To fly off in minute particles.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
  2. n. a hazy or indistinct representation
  3. n. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
  4. n. the first beard of an adolescent boy

Etymologies

  1. Unknown (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps back-formation from fuzzy.Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. police officer
  1. policeman
  1. officer
  1. internal representation
  1. mental representation
  1. representation
  1. face fungus
  1. whiskers
  1. beard

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. fluff
  2. ringlet
  3. splotch
  4. bristle
  1. mustache
  2. sheen
  3. luminescence
  4. mustaches
  1. ichor
  2. after-image
  3. stubble
  4. burdock
  1. gauze
  2. highlight
  3. mane
  4. smear
  1. goo
  2. wisp
  3. blur
  4. fleece
  1. tuft
  2. bunch grass
  3. smudge
  4. ponytail

rhymes (9)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. abuzz
  1. because
  1. buzz
  1. does
  1. luz
  1. outdoes
  1. overdoes
  1. twas
  1. was

reverse dictionary (10)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fuzzy
  2. fuz
  1. fur
  2. fuzzyheaded
  1. fuzz
  2. fluff
  1. lint
  2. scalp
  1. brushing-machine
  2. dressing-machine

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  • bilby "Despite the venal patronage of Elektra, Transatlantic, Polydor, EMI, Track, Apple, the Inland Revenue and Radio 1, the Underground remains uncharted, unreliable, unrewarding and irresponsible. If everyone who clamours to be of it today were to deny it tomorrow it would exist still. Miss Nicholson may tell the fuzz anything she pleases - her cunt knows better."
    - 'The Million-Dollar Underground', Germaine Greer in Oz, 1969. Mar 27, 2008

  • zacharyr peach fuzz buzz Dec 5, 2006

  • zacharyr Mudhoney has an album, "March to Fuzz" Dec 5, 2006

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‘fuzz’ has been looked up 2194 times, loved by 2 people, added to 29 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.