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fuzz

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Fuzz is a 1972 American action comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla , and stars Burt Reynolds , Yul Brynner , Raquel Welch , Tom Skeritt and Jack Weston . The screenplay was written by Evan Hunter , based on the 1968 novel of the same name that was ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, fusse , first attested in fusball "puff ball of tiny spores," of uncertain origin; perhaps a back-formation from fuzzy , if that word is older than the record of it. Meaning "the police" is American English, 1929, underworld slang; origin, signification, ...

Usage examples of fuzz.

A mile or two distant, the road crossed a small river that ran from right to left towards the Gulf of Cambaye, which was barely visible as a grayish fuzz on the eastern horizon.

His eyelids, now delicately fuzzed with byrus, rippled as the eyeballs beneath them moved.

The cobblestone-size rocks were all fuzzed with the yellow-brown muck, and he wondered how he could identify any of the shaggy lumps as a severed head.

This heart-touched soppiness I suddenly felt had nothing whatever to do with the fact that the golden-brown fuzz on his arm was within shivering distance of my own arm, of course.

The next day he was working on the laptop when his spreadsheet fuzzed away into the ether, to be replaced by a badly drawn image of a bird bursting into a blaze of flame.

Most housing had been swallowed by beds of swampy fuzz, but a few buildings were so larded with chemical fungicides and brews of biological toxins that local bacilli and thallophytes had never established a foothold.

I pulled the transparent flap of my thermo-skin bag across my face and managed pretty well, and I noticed that Tweel used some feathery appendages growing like a mustache at the base of his beak to cover his nostrils, and some similar fuzz to shield his eyes.

His powder-blue coat bunches up thickly and the unbarbered fuzz of hairs on the back of his neck shows up, the filaments refracting the courtroom lights.

He was standing on his feet when Red Fred, alerted by the almost osmotic disappearance of Doc Lem Architrave, observed that the fuzz had made the scene after all.

There were several different kinds: huge black bumblebees, a smaller kind, striped with black and yellow fuzz, and the smooth lethal shapes of wasps, bellies pointed as daggers.

All he could see initially was a fuzz of diffused polychromatic light which crept around the disordered lines of the lead panels.

He had pink fuzz on his head that made him look like a beguiling putto and newborn blue eyes already touched with green and a gurgling coo that instantly charmed.

Buddhist lay monks, this one had shaved his head entirely, although his hair had grown out into a shadowy fuzz.

Even if the Supernaturalists were caught on camera, their heads would only show up as static fuzz.

Meanwhile, Margaret stared as the stone trapezoid crackled and fuzzed with static.