fuzz

fuzz ¹  (fz)

n.

A mass or coating of fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles; down: the fuzz on a peach.

v. fuzzed, fuzz·ing, fuzz·es

v.tr.

1. To cover with fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles.

2. To make blurred or indistinct: fuzzing the difference between the two candidates; worked quickly to fuzz up the details of the scandal.

v.intr.

To become blurred or obscure.

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[Perhaps back-formation from fuzzy.]

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fuzz ¹

Noun

a mass or covering of fine or curly hairs, fibres, etc. [probably from Low German fussig loose]

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fuzz ²

Noun

Brit, Austral & NZ slang the police or a policeman [origin unknown]

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Fuzz a mass of light, fine fluffy particles; U. S. Slang, the police collectively.

Examples: fuzz of hair, 1720; of paper-lace, 1881.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fuzz - filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" tomentum, hair plant process, enation - a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ stinging hair - a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid beard - a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
	2.	fuzz - uncomplimentary terms for a policeman cop, copper, pig, bull colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech police officer, policeman, officer - a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer"
	3.	fuzz - a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" blur internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
	4.	fuzz - the first beard of an adolescent boy beard, face fungus, whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

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fuzz

noun fluff, down, hair, pile, fibre, nap, floss, lint

Translations

fuzz [fʌz] (inf) n (police);

the fuzz → die Bullen pl