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fuzz-ball|ˈfʌzbɔːl|
Forms: 6–7 fus(se)bal(l, 7, 9 fuss-, 7–9 fuz-, 7– fuzz-ball.
[f. fuzz n.1 + ball.]
A popular name of the fungus Lycoperdon Bovista, puff-ball.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. clxii. 1386 Puffes Fistes & Fusse⁓bals. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Adelphi ii. ii, He hath made..my head as soft as a fusball with buffets. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 328 With a Fusse-ball, or some sharpe smoake, smoake them to death. 1648Sanderson Serm. II. 245 As soon as touched..[they] like a fuss-ball, resolve all into dust and smoak. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 585 The spungey internal part of the common fuz-ball. 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. i. 107 Tread on it, and like the fuss-ball it will break into dust. 1863Mrs. Whitney F. Gartney's Girlhood iv. 25 Short, sandy hair standing up about the temples like a fuzz-ball.
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1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 7 The Gray or Horse-Fly. Her legs..slit at the ends into two toes, both which are lined with two white sponges or fuzballs. 1679Dryden Troilus ii. iii, You empty fuzz-balls, your heads are full of nothing else but proclamations. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 291 When they [Hedge Hogs] fear any harm towards them, gather themselves into a round Fuz-ball.
attrib.1648Herrick Hesper., Oberon's Feast (1869) 126 A little fuz-ball pudding stands By. |