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Fuzz

noun

Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant. Synonyms: hair, tomentum.

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman. Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, pig.

A hazy or indistinct representation. Synonym: blur. "He tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"

The first beard of an adolescent boy.

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"Fuzz" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Fuzz your granny," said Melissa stoutly. "In a couple of months you could get a beard like a billy goat if you ...

— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon

... at the twin with the yellow fuzz on the top of its head that has hall-marked it as the Kitten in my mind, seated on Sallie's lap with her head on Sallie's shoulder looking like a baby bud folded against the full rose, and I couldn't help laughing. Kit had been undressed ...

— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess

... looking out, and he, too, saw the top of a mop-headed savage's fuzz begin to appear softly over the edge of the window, then dart up quickly and bob down again, after its owner had ...

— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn

... days as a child? No! You are seeing your worst days. Of course, you can be happy as a child. A boy can be happy with fuzz on his upper lip, but he'll be happier when his lip feels more like mine like a piece of sandpaper. There are chapters of happiness undreamed of in ...

— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette

... on an oil-stone. He shaves the entire face and neck, not omitting even the lobes of the ear, the forehead, and nose. If the European traveller didn't keep his senses about him, while in the barber-chair of a Japanese village, he would find himself with every particle of fuzz scraped off his face and neck, save, of course, his regular whiskers or mustache, ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

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