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Buzz   /bəz/   Listen
noun
Buzz  n.  
1.
A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation. "The constant buzz of a fly." "I found the whole room in a buzz of politics." "There is a buzz all around regarding the sermon."
2.
A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously. "There's a certain buzz Of a stolen marriage."
3.
(Phonetics) The audible friction of voice consonants.


verb
Buzz  v. t.  
1.
To sound forth by buzzing.
2.
To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly. "I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life."
3.
To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice. (Colloq.)
4.
(Phonetics) To sound with a "buzz".


Buzz  v. i.  (past & past part. buzzed; pres. part. buzzing)  To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. "Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him." "However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears."





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"Buzz" Quotes from Famous Books



... about and reentered the saloon. A buzz of talk up and down the long room promptly died away as again the eyes of many men travelled his way. It struck him that they had all been talking of him; he knew that they must have marked those signs which Joe Woods's fists had left on his face; he stood a moment looking in on them, conscious ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory
... unlike her, an unnatural product of her unnatural state, she locked her jaws together that she might not scream this once. And in the eery stillness that followed the effort, which had made her ears buzz and her temples throb, she heard quite sanely Florence's denial of some charge her twin ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... and we all three got in, leaving a message for Mr. Halfacre to follow us. As the rumor that a "three-figure" pocket-handkerchief was to be at the ball, had preceded my appearance, a general buzz announced my arrival in the salle a manger-salons. I have no intention of describing fashionable society in the GREAT EMPORIUM of the WESTERN WORLD. Every body understands that it is on the best possible footing—grace, ease, high ...
— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper
... Then they followed Buzz to a quiet nook in the wood; and there were the eagle and his mate waiting to fly away with them so fast and so far that no one could follow. Rosy and the bag of gold were put on the mother eagle; Tom sat astride the king bird; and away they flew to a great city, ...
— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott
... muttered Hoggenback, as, with his eyes to the ground, he passed Andrews. "I could tell 'em some things'd make their goddam ears buzz." ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos


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