fuzz Definition
fuzz (fuz)
noun
- very loose, light particles of down, wool, etc.; fine hairs or fibers the fuzz on a peach
- a blurred, distorted audio effect deliberately produced when amplifying the sounds of an electronic musical instrument, as by overloading an amplification circuit
Etymology: < ? Du voos, spongy, or back-form. < fuzzy
intransitive verb, transitive verb
- to cover or become covered with fuzz
- to make or become fuzzy
fuzz Idioms
the fuzz
☆Etymology: < ? fuss, in sense “a fussy (i.e., hard to please) person”
Slang a policeman or the police
fuzz Synonyms
fuzz Usage Examples
Preposition: on
guitar: That continual fuzz on the guitars does get irritating.
Adjective modifier
- peach: Having a ' peach fuzz ' at 19 years is perfectly normal.
- electric: They performed their power version for Donovan at his Hertfordshire home, influencing the bard who adopted their electric fuzz for his next single.
- warm: The cold blew away the warm fuzz of the restaurant, which was what I needed.
- dark: No time is wasted with between song banter yet this only adds to the dark guitar fuzz and throbbing bass.
- white: F. It produces 3 to 6 inch, heart shaped, long stalked leaves that are covered with white fuzz on their undersides.
- smooth: A half dozen fuzz algorithms, from smooth germanium transistor fuzz to harsh silicon clipping fuzz boxes.
Modifies a noun
- riff: An anticipatory overspill ends it all as those frustration fuzz riffs keep on flying and the theremin wigs out into a perfect pileup.
- guitar: Follow Me sees the return of the fuzz guitar with a riff that drives through the song.
- tone: Pushing Distortion up higher produces classic fuzz tones that are finding their way on to an increasing number of albums.
- box: Paul McCartney attaches a fuzz box to his bass for Harrison's song Think for Yourself.
- factor: A context diff using fuzz factor 3 may have the same problem.
Followed by an intransitive particle
up: Then complexity appears as a ' fuzzing up ' of an essential reality rather than as a manifestation of the world's holistic nature.
Followed by a transitive particle
up: That's when they're tempted to fuzz up the facts and create false impressions.
Particle object:
guitar: The sound is great with Corin Tucker's wailing banshee vocals and fuzzed up guitars blasting through the speakers.
Noun used with modifier
- guitar: On " Satisfaction " Richards recorded perhaps the first hit featuring a guitar fuzz effect which has since become commonplace.
- quantum: A universe with nonzero size and finite energy density appears from a quantum fuzz.
- code: We take advantage of inheriting * code name /code and code fuzz /code from * code GeometricObject /code.
- face: Grow some face fuzz man, wasnt sure which of you was prettiest!
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