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Fuzz   /fəz/   Listen
Fuzz

noun
1.
Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant.  Synonyms: hair, tomentum.
2.
Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.  Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, pig.
3.
A hazy or indistinct representation.  Synonym: blur.  "He tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"
4.
The first beard of an adolescent boy.



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"Fuzz" Quotes from Famous Books



... and he, too, saw the top of a mop-headed savage's fuzz begin to appear softly over the edge of the window, then dart up quickly and bob down again, after its owner had made ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn

... farmer, 78 years old, weighs about 135 pounds, and is about 5 feet 9 inches high. His head is bald with a little gray fuzz over his ears and growing low toward the nape of his neck. He does not wear spectacles nor smoke a pipe. ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Mississippi Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... at the twin with the yellow fuzz on the top of its head that has hall-marked it as the Kitten in my mind, seated on Sallie's lap with her head on Sallie's shoulder looking like a baby bud folded against the full rose, and I couldn't help laughing. ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess

... razor frequently on an oil-stone. He shaves the entire face and neck, not omitting even the lobes of the ear, the forehead, and nose. If the European traveller didn't keep his senses about him, while in the barber-chair of a Japanese village, he would find himself with every particle of fuzz scraped off his face and neck, save, of course, his regular whiskers or mustache, ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

... in a great circle and came by a roundabout way back to the little fuzz-balls she had ...
— Lobo, Rag and Vixen - Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen • Ernest Seton-Thompson

... because one isn't sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it is better to waste a little space than to lose completely for not having enough. A fudge factor, on the other hand, can often be tweaked in more than one direction. A good example is the 'fuzz' typically allowed in floating-point calculations: two numbers being compared for equality must be allowed to differ by a small amount; if that amount is too small, a computation may never terminate, while if ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0



Words linked to "Fuzz" :   fuzzy, internal representation, colloquialism, beard, policeman, stinging hair, face fungus, officer, mental representation, plant process, whiskers, representation, police officer, enation



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