fuzz
noun/fʌz/
/fʌz/
- [uncountable] short soft fine hair or fur that covers something, especially a person’s face or arms synonym down
- [singular] a mass of curly hair
- a fuzz of blonde hair
- the fuzz[singular + singular or plural verb] (old-fashioned, slang) the police
- She thought the fuzz was/were onto her.
- something that you cannot see clearly synonym blur
- I saw it as a dim fuzz through the binoculars.
Word Originsenses 1 to 2 and sense 4 late 16th cent.: probably of Low German or Dutch origin; compare with Dutch voos, Low German fussig ‘spongy’. sense 3 1920s (originally US): of unknown origin.
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