Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make a humming or hissing sound, like that of an arrow or ball flying through the air.
- To move, rush, or fly with a sibilant humming sound.
- n. A sound between hissing and humming; a sibilant or whistling hum, such as that made by the rapid flight of an arrow, a bullet, or other missile through the air.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a soft swishing sound
- v. move along very quickly
- n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Examples
“When he scolded another boat for being to close during the fight (which it wasn't), I then had the pleasure of watching that captain whizz 12 ounces of lead into the windshield of the scolder.”
“Noa, I'll shy it mysel '," said the gallant Jimmy; and at the word whizz came the half of a turnip within art inch of Kate's ear.”
“One group of wounded World War I soldiers developed such speedy invalid carriages - known as whizz bangs - to propel them to race meetings that they became known locally as the 'flying squad'.”
“I have heard from one of our US readers that "whizz" means something else entirely!”
“As the word left his lips, "whizz," Jimmy's minnow landed in the middle of the circles widening about the rise of the Bass.”
“The spin and "whizz" of his reel, the rush of a brown mountain stream with its fringe of silver birch and stunted alder, the white side of a leaping salmon, and the gasp of that noble fish towed deftly into the shallows at last, afforded him a natural and unmixed pleasure.”
“(usually) tepid water, rinse at least twice, and take it outside to "whizz" it around to get as much water out as possible.”
“You melt the chocolate in a double boiler, whizz it in a blender with the remaining few ingredients and chill it for a few hours.”
The Huffington Post: Laura Silverman: The Mousse That Roared
“My friend Stephanie is a whizz with cakes and cupcakes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whizz’.
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plain hilarious
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 86 more...
pikachu I threw my head back to a glinting whizz that traversed the pilot house, in at one shutter-hole and out at the other.
--Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Mar 19, 2011