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▪ I. huzz, n. ? Obs.
[Origin obscure. In the northern glossary to J. Hutton's ‘Tour to the Caves’ 1781, is ‘Huzzin, an husk’.]
(See quot.)
1747Gentl. Mag. 310 The smaller hulls, chaff and huzzes, that is, grains of corn in their hulls, passed thro' this wide wire grate.
▪ II. huzz, int.|hʌz|
[Echoic.]
A buzz.
1827Hardman Waterloo 20 The sprouts of this twig will rustle out Huzz! While their verdant branch lies buried in the fuzz.
▪ III. huzz, v.|hʌz|
Also 6 husz.
[Echoic; see prec.: cf. whizz.]
intr. (rarely trans.) To buzz. Hence ˈhuzzing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. vi. 94 Gnattes..driue the Lions with their stingyng and terrible huszyng, cleane out of that quartre. 1557–8T. Phaer æneid vi. R iij b, As bees..With huzzing feruent noyse. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 320 Whether you heare a great noise and huzzing within [the hive]. 1664G. Etherege Love in Tub i. ii, Mrs. Graciana has flung a Squib into his bosom, where the Wild-fire will huzz for a time, and then, crack, it flies out. 1682Otway Venice Pres. v. i. 67 The waves Huzzing and booming round my sinking head. 1747Gentl. Mag. 381 Let not your vessel be..stopped close, until, by drawing it off, it be made to leave huzzing and sputtering. 1864Tennyson North. Farmer (O.S.) xvi, Wi' 'is kittle o' steäm Huzzin' an' maäzin' the blessed feälds wi' the Divil's oän teäm. 1894F. S. Ellis Reynard 70 Just as a big dragon fly Was huzzing-buzzing in his eye. |