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▪ I. fuzz, n.1|fʌz|
In sense 2 also 7 fuss.
[Perh. imitative of the action of blowing away light particles. Cf., however, fozy and the cognate words there cited.]
1. Loose volatile matter; a mass of fine, light, fluffy particles.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 125 A Snayl..which is..to our feeling, very cold, is fain to brood its as cold sweatty eggs..bespiewing them about with the fuzze of a cold clammy froth. c1720Prior Pontius & Pontia ii. Misc. Wks. (1740) 107 One ask'd, if that high fuzz of hair Was, bona fide, all your Own. 1840Smart, Fuzz, volatile matter. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. II. 319 Blankets with the woollen fuzz upon them. 1865A. Cary Ball. & Lyrics 61 Your hair! why, you've only a little gray fuzz! 1881Sat. Rev. No. 1320. 203 The expensive valentines are gaudy chromolithographic objects, fluttering in a fuzz of paper-lace.
†2. = fuzz-ball. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 7 Puffes, Fusbals or Fusses. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 45 The most conservent is that Toadstool which is called a Fuss. 1701–2De la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 249 The bottom part of a great cup mushroom or fuz.
3. Photogr. = fuzziness.
1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 370 The importance of knowing beforehand by what standard (focus or fuzz) we are to be judged.
4. Comb.: fuzz-type, a jocular name for a photograph with (intentional) blurred effect; fuzz-wig, a wig of crisp curls; so fuzz-wigged adj.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xi, A shovel-hatted fuzz⁓wigged Silenus. 1854― J. Leech's Pict. (1869) 327 There was Rowlandson's..Doctor Syntax in a fuzz-wig. 1893Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. XL. 750 However tolerable a 14 × 12 fuzztype (as they have been jocularly called) may be.
Add:[4.] fuzzbox, a device which imparts a buzzing quality to the sound of an electric guitar or other instrument by introducing a controlled form of distortion into the sound signal; freq. attrib.
1964Beat Instrumental Dec. 25 Could you please tell me how the lead guitarist got that very weird sound on P. J. Proby's ‘Together’... Answer:—Well-known session guitarist, Jim Sullivan..used a Rickenbacker with a *fuzz box. 1971Sunday Times 9 May 31/6 There's a passage in one old song, ‘I Could Write a Book’, when her voice turns sweetly gruff, an almost exact vocal gloss on modern fuzzbox guitar. 1990New Yorker 31 Dec. 27/2 What flutes, harpsichords, and violins had been to an earlier time, fuzzboxes, wah-wah pedals, and tremolo bars were to him.
▪ II. † fuzz, n.2 Obs. rare.
[cf. fuzz v.3]
A fuddled or muddled state.
1711Swift Lett. (1767) III. 155, I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I say.
▪ III. fuzz, n.3 slang (orig. U.S.).|fʌz|
[Origin uncertain.]
A policeman or detective (see also quot. 1931); freq. collect., the police.
1929E. Booth Stealing through Life xii. 301 Don't run, and rank yourself—the fuzz don't know what's doin' yet. 1931G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 81 Fuzz, a detective; a prison guard or turnkey. Here it is likely that ‘fuzz’ was originally ‘fuss’, one hard to please or over-particular. 1938D. Runyon Take it Easy ii. 33 A race-track fuzz catches up with him. 1959Observer 1 Nov. 7/5 ‘Fuzz broke up two of my poetry readings last night.’.. Fuzz means police. 1961Wodehouse Ice in Bedroom x. 75 The society of coppers, peelers, flatfeet, rozzers and what are known in the newest argot of her native land as ‘the fuzz’ always affected her with an unpleasant breathlessness. 1964E. Ambler Kind of Anger iii. 76 If the fuzz get excited we may have to produce her. 1969Times 25 July 5/2 (heading) Fuzz sock it to the mean cats. 1971Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves xv. 165 If the fuzz search my room, I'm sunk.
▪ IV. † fuzz, v.1 Obs.
[echoic; cf. buzz, fizz.]
intr. To buzz. Hence ˈfuzzing vbl. n.
1676T. Mace Musick's Mon. ii. iv. 57 You may discover the least Crack or Looseness of any Barr, by the shattering or Fuzzing it will make.
▪ V. fuzz, v.2 slang.|fʌz|
(See quot. 1754; it is doubtful whether the later explanations represent a change of sense or a misunderstanding.)
1753E. Moore in World No 41 ⁋7 As to shuffling, fuzzing, changing of seats..he was an absolute ideot. 1754Chesterfield Ibid. No. 101 ⁋5, I was also a witness to the rise and progress of that most important verb, to fuzz; which, if not of legitimate birth, is at least of fair extraction..it means no less than dealing twice together with the same pack of cards, for luck's sake, at whist. 1755Connoisseur No. 60 ⁋3 They can scarce tell what is meant by..fuzzing the cards. 1796Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3), To Fuzz, to shuffle cards minutely; also, to change the pack.
▪ VI. † fuzz, v.3 Obs.—1
[Perh. connected with fuzz n.1, v.4 through the notion of blurring or confusing.]
trans. To make drunk, fuddle.
1685Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 152 The University troop dined with the Earl of Abendon at Ricot, and came home well fuz'd.
▪ VII. fuzz, v.4|fʌz|
[f. fuzz n.1]
1. intr. (See quots.) Also to fuzz out.
1702in J. K. Dict. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Fuzz, to ravel or run out, as some sorts of Stuff and Silk do. 1753Mrs. Delany Let. to Mrs. Dewes in Life & Corr. (1862) 258 Have you begun the shade for your toilette? If not, I believe you must do it to wash, for the catgut in time grows very limp, and the silk fuses. 1840Smart, Fuzz, to fly out in small particles. 1862C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate ix. (1881) 93 A flounced frock of dark silk figured with blue, that looked slightly fuzzed out.
2. trans. To cover with fine or minute particles.
1851S. Judd Margaret xvii, The fine grail glancing in her eyes and fuzzing her face.
Hence ˈfuzzing ppl. a.
1775Ash, Fuzzing, flying off in small parts, fretting out in small particles.
Add:3. To make fuzzy, indistinct, or confused; to blur, confound. Also with up and intr., to become blurred or unclear. Chiefly U.S.
1907N. Munro Daft Days vi. 48 He knew an artist who'd finish a picture with everything quite plain about it, and then say, ‘Now for the Art!’ and fuzz it all with a hard brush. 1930W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 208 When he goes into the moon, his legs fuzz. a1961in Webster s.v., If a little haze fuzzes up the lamps they say it's all closed in. 1966Listener 23 June 897/1 Two Texas politicians—both, just to fuzz up things, named Yarborough. 1968R. Coover Universal Baseball Assoc. iii. 108 When he tried to picture it in his mind, it fuzzed into a big blur. 1988W. Horwood Duncton Quest iii. xxii. 295 Spindle's view of the trees and roots and sky were obscured and fuzzed by Thyme's fur. |