| 单词 | fuzz |
| 释义 | fuzz (once / 3248 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n Fuzz is a downy or hair patch of fibers. Most kids love to blow the fuzz off of a dandelion. The furry growth on your cactus plant is fuzz, and so is your sister's frizzy hair and your cousin's patchy attempt at sideburns. You can also call an unfocused, blurry image fuzz: "I was so tired that there was fuzz at the edges of my vision." Informally, some people refer to police officers as fuzz too, a usage that dates from 1920s US gangster slang. WORD FAMILYfuzz: fuzzes, fuzzy+/fuzzy: fuzzier, fuzziest, fuzzily, fuzziness USAGE EXAMPLESThe silkscreen process fuzzes the scene, while a mechanically produced grid interrupts any easy perceptions of naturalism. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) He’s not afraid to whack the fuzz off the ball, supreme hitting allowing him to make it 15-all. The Guardian(Nov 15, 2016) “The data has got the right kind of fuzz growing on it,” Paul Vixie told me. Slate(Oct 31, 2016) 1 n filamentous hairlike growth on a plant 2peach fuzz Syn|Hypo|Hyper hair, tomentum stinging hair a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid bearda tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses awnslender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses enation, plant process a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ n a hazy or indistinct representation 3he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz Syn|Hyper blur internal representation, mental representation, representation a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image n the first beard of an adolescent boy 4Hyper beard, face fungus, whiskers the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face n uncomplimentary terms for a policeman Syn|Hyper bull, cop, copper, pig officer, police officer, policeman a member of a police force |
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