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futz
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ts/
Etymology 1
Probably from German Fotze (“cunt”).
Noun
futz (plural futzes)
- (vulgar, colloquial, dialectal, derogatory) An objectionable woman
- Janet gets on my nerves. She's a dumb futz, ain't she?
Etymology 2
From German herumfurzen (literally “to fart around”) (herum- +? furzen), perhaps via Yiddish ????????????? (arumfartsn); alternatively, a euphemism for fuck.
Verb
futz (third-person singular simple present futzes, present participle futzing, simple past and past participle futzed)
- To be frivolous and waste time [from the 20th c.]
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
- I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
- To experiment by trial and error
Synonyms
- putz
Usage notes
- Used especially in the phrase futz around.
See also
- (experiment): frob, fooster
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fuzz
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?z, IPA(key): /f?z/
- Rhymes: -?z
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, "Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles."
Noun
fuzz (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzes)
- A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
- 1895, Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, page 352:
- His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.
- 1895, Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, page 352:
- Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
- (computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
- A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
- A state of befuddlement.
- 1784, Jonathan Swift, "Journal to Stella", The works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, page 54:
- I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I ?ay, I never ?aw the like.
- 1784, Jonathan Swift, "Journal to Stella", The works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, page 54:
Translations
Verb
fuzz (third-person singular simple present fuzzes, present participle fuzzing, simple past and past participle fuzzed)
- (transitive) To make fuzzy.
- (intransitive) To become fuzzy.
- (transitive, dated) To make drunk.
- (computing) To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
- 2012, Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, iOS Hacker's Handbook (page 172)
- Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.
- 2012, Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, iOS Hacker's Handbook (page 172)
- (intransitive, dated) To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.
References
- "fuzz, n.1" Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “fuzz1”, in Webster's II New College Dictionary, 2005, ?ISBN
Etymology 2
Unknown. Godfrey Irwin (1930) suggests a possible connection to fuss, "over-particular", excessive bother.
Noun
fuzz (uncountable)
- (US, slang, with "the") The police.
- 2009, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, 0:26:17:
- Let's get the hell out of here before the fuzz turns up
- 2009, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, 0:26:17:
Translations
References
- Godfrey Irwin. 1930. American Tramp and Underworld Slang, New York, Sears. ?OCLC
Spanish
Noun
fuzz m (uncountable)
- fuzz
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