fuzz

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
2. (countable, uncountable) Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
3. (countable, uncountable) The random data used in fuzz testing.
4. (countable, uncountable) A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
5. (countable, uncountable) A state of befuddlement.
6. (countable, uncountable) Fuzziness, vagueness.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make fuzzy.
2. (intransitive) To become fuzzy.
3. (dated, transitive) To make drunk.
4. To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
5. (dated, intransitive) To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.

Concepts

duvet

flic

👮

cochon

cuivre

poil

police

👮

porc

poulet

🐔

bourre

cheveux crépus

taureau

chevelure

keuf

👮

cheveu

Synonymes

fluff

down

lint

cop

👮

hair

blur

copper

pig

🐖

tomentum

pile

bull

nap

fine hair

soft hair

lanugo

police

👮

shag

skin

pilus

policy

solf and thick

blurriness

bobby

bristle

eiderdown

filth

floss

font

fur

heat

law

military police

mop

prickle

pubescence

roughness

Traductions

Flaum

Härchen

vello

χνούδι

polizia

peluria

sbirro

👮

pula

pelucco

capelli crespi

Fussel

piedipiatti

👮

fusseln

Haar

αστυνομία

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fʌz/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à bas-allemand: fussig

Appartenant à néerlandais: voos

In summary

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.”