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Buzz   /bəz/   Listen
Buzz

noun
1.
Sound of rapid vibration.  Synonyms: bombilation, bombination.
2.
A confusion of activity and gossip.
verb
(past & past part. buzzed; pres. part. buzzing)
1.
Make a buzzing sound.  Synonyms: bombilate, bombinate.
2.
Fly low.
3.
Be noisy with activity.  Synonyms: hum, seethe.
4.
Call with a buzzer.



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"Buzz" Quotes from Famous Books



... great gadfly, as big as a bat, and sent it to buzz in the white cow's ears, and to bite her and sting her so that she could have no rest all day long. Poor Io ran from place to place to get out of its way; but it buzzed and buzzed, and stung and stung, ...
— Old Greek Stories • James Baldwin
... crowns, and an examination in which Raleigh's friend Captain Keymis admitted a private interview between Cobham and Raleigh during Count Aremberg's stay in London, were then read. In the discussion on these documents the court and the prisoner fell to actual wrangling; in the buzz of voices it was hard to tell what was said, until a certain impression was at last made by Coke, who screamed out that Raleigh 'had a Spanish heart and was a spider of hell.' This produced a lull, and thereupon followed an irrelevant dispute as to whether ...
— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse
... this hour. Excuse me for a moment," and before Handy could say another word Fogg was half-way down the first flight of stairs. The noise of the opening and closing of the street door was heard, and then succeeded a buzz of female voices accompanied by a patter of feet on the stairs. Before Handy had time to prepare to receive visitors, the door opened and Fogg, his face lighted up with the broadest kind of a smile, made his appearance, and ushered in the committee, which consisted ...
— A Pirate of Parts • Richard Neville
... like music, Some voices arouse to action and ambition. Some voices fill you with despondency. Some voices irritate like a buzz-saw. Some voices snap like turtles, and some hiss ...
— The Colored Girl Beautiful • E. Azalia Hackley
... behind, there was a steady roar and buzz of voices; the Captain was easy and genial, prophesying to the ladies on either side Of him a calm voyage. In the shelter of his big voice even the shy found it easy to make remarks to their neighbors. Listening to fragments of the talk O'Malley found ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood


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