Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with fuzz.
- adj. Of or resembling fuzz.
- adj. Not clear; indistinct: a fuzzy recollection of past events.
- adj. Not coherent; confused: a fuzzy plan of action.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Covered with fuzz; liable to give off fuzz: as, a fuzzy caterpillar.
- Like fuzz or down; fluffy: as, a fuzzy nap; a fuzzy fringe.
Wiktionary
- adj. Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals. Mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
- adj. Vague or imprecise.
- adj. Not clear; unfocused.
- n. an individual flake of fuzzies
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Prov. Eng. Not firmly woven; that ravels.
- adj. Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out
- adj. covering with fine light hairs
- adj. indistinct or hazy in outline
Etymologies
- From fuzz + -y. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from Low German fussig, spongy; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My recipe for a defence review would be to adopt a much more 'fuzzy' approach (after the term fuzzy logic).”
“The changes are being driven by students 'lagging performance on international tests and mathematicians' warnings that more than a decade of so-called reform math — critics call it fuzzy math — has crippled students with its de-emphasizing of basic drills and memorization in favor of allowing children to find their own ways to solve problems.”
“This also enables what you call fuzzy, but my guess it's just an evolutionarily approach to handle new or defect brain regions / layers.”
“The Lancet, the critics pounced, again honing in on what they called fuzzy math.”
“There are Grizzly bears in both places too, and I'm happy to carry extra horsepower when ol 'fuzzy is around.”
“There are lots of important things in fuzzy territory, hard to assign to one regiime.”
“He said: I was still a bit fuzzy from the surgery but reached for my glasses and put them on and I couldn't see a thing.”
“Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: smitty needs to join fuzzy nuts at the bar.”
“RantingTommy says: fuzzy is just jealous because no one will be his friend”
“A little later, warm and fuzzy from a 9.5% proof Trappist beer, I had to rein myself in again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fuzzy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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Primero
random
persnickety, hypoxia, peripatetic, love, anoxia, ginko, inigma, gentle, nourished, deem, earthquake, feather and 20 more...
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Cute words. :D
the name says it all ^
warble, fuzzy, foofy, buff, cuddle, ding dong, clumsy, ballistic, balling, pudgy, zing, doll and 4 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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chibiryuu's Words
sugary, amalgam, zaftig, incommensurability, isomorphism, fold, awesome, cute, hack, dichotomy, pyrrhic, bifurcate and 89 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fuzzy.
sonofgroucho As in "fuzzy logic". Aug 23, 2007
juv3nal Fuzzy Wuzzy was a skinhead bear?
Same old story, polar bears tryin' to keep the black bear down. Jan 26, 2007
wolfy Maybe Fuzzy Wuzzy was another missing link in the evolution chain.. Jan 26, 2007
seanahan Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he? Dec 24, 2006