Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A person considered exceptionally gifted or skilled.
Wiktionary
- n. a person who is exceptionally gifted or skilled in a particular area
- n. Internet, informal A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.
- n. slang, especially with the verb “take” the act of urinating
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Etymologies
- From wizard (Wiktionary)
- Short for wizard. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Another laws-of-magic example might be Rick Cook's stories about a computer "wiz" who discovers that those skills directly translate into magical abilities in another world.”
“Apple director Shoemaker developed 'fart,' 'wiz' apps for iPhone”
“Why spend so much time and money adding every kind of wiz-bang feature you can imaging but not bother doing something that has got to be needed by every developer on most every project?”
“Goods and stock up on gear with Wiz on it (which is totally different than stocking up on gear from Dollar General, which has a different kind of wiz on it) confident in the notion that one of your favorite UK players will be in DC next season.”
“I think the cops demonstrated remarkable patience here, until finally this "wiz" put his hands on them one too many times (and they were still rather patient).”
“Oh Gee wiz i guess I will simply have to forget that interview. i will just do my own at home i have a brick I can put into a chair and it will be just as informative as Palin!”
“March 24th, 2010 at 6: 52 pm katy says: thanks wiz … i understood the strategy, just not the pick … ick.”
Think Progress » Sen. Gregg Touts The CBO On Fox News, But Then Bashes It On CNN
“Maybe if you came here and said, yeah retired life is not all it cracked up to be until I realized that my teaching abilities really went far by giving free course to seniors on how to manager their money, since i am such a wiz at corraling my expenditures to live on my $250,000.”
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’
“You might be an intellectual wiz at redstate but we know how to spell and read here.”
Think Progress » Gingrich: Hoekstra’s Campaign Got A ‘Boost’ From Failed Airline Bomber
“Finally wiz said something that makes sense @ comment 37..”
Think Progress » ADL asserts Gen. Petraeus ‘erred’ in his recent congressional testimony.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wiz’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Nightmare Alley
From the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
geek, mark, rubber, calliope, booze-fool, rummy, the horrors, the crawling snakes, equalizer, bubbies, grubstake, softshoe and 99 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Favorites
paradox, zephyr, tada, allons-y, mercurial, voilà, zenith, zealot, infidel, heretic, wraith, volatile and 20 more...
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"Z" Words
Scrabble List
zyme, zori, zoos, zoon, zoom, zonk, zone, zoic, zoea, zits, ziti, zing and 76 more...
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Words that make me sick
Words that make me feel gross all over
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wiz.
yarb Citation on crystal-reader. Jul 8, 2012