peach fuzzn.adj.

1871 D. H. Strother Virginia Illustr. 244 Why have boys of sixteen or thereabout such an inordinate desire for beards? And why..does the hard-hearted dame [i.e. Nature] insult them with a sprinkling of peach fuzz instead?

1938 N.Y. Times 2 Oct. 28 (advt.) ‘Peach fuzz’—a popular new fabric of extraordinary richness and depth of pile.

1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited xxix. 345 A lad who was a head shorter than Red and still had peach fuzz on his cheeks.

2001 Vogue (U.S. ed.) Oct. 318/1 A ‘string facial’``.that buffs off every smidgen of peach fuzz and stray brow hairs with a coiled thread.

1902 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 8 Mar. 1/1 Gentle Spring here... Peach fuzz is blowing about in the country districts.

1938 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 30 Nov. 20/7 His face was paper white under the golden down that covered it like peach fuzz.

1979 Callaloo No. 7. 18 Kinky mustard colored hair covering his head like peach fuzz.

2002 Washington Times (Electronic ed.) 1 Aug. Orchard peaches are plenty fuzzy, and peach fuzz itches.

1932 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 23/1 Abe, played by Mr. Durante, characterizes youngsters drinking as ‘a lot of peach-fuzz chins getting drunk at high noon’.

1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xxii. 252 The younger cop, a peach-fuzz rookie type.

1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 8 Dec. f6 Long, silvery peach-fuzz hair and a scraggly white beard, reminiscent of Howard Hughes or Santa Claus.

1997 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 Dec. f36 It might be a kid-pop band capable of some legitimate peach-fuzz soul.

2004 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 10 Jan. b3 This guy with the peach-fuzz face looked as if he had grown up in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood.

1956 Lima (Ohio) News 25 Aug. 10/6 The only other people who respond to their squealing exhortations are other peach-fuzzed kids.

1981 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 19 Apr. It was great while it lasted for Billy Martin's peach-fuzzed Oakland A's.

1983 Newsweek (50th Anniv. Issue) Spring 143/3 She asked permission in the sixth grade to shave her peach-fuzzed legs and wear stockings.

1998 Rec. Collector Apr. 40/2 The peach-fuzzed youngster from L.A. has certainly proved that music can still confound and surprise us.