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Compare Middle English bunning (“buzzing”), Middle English hossing (“buzzing”), Middle English bissen (“to hush”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.\n1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 209:In the steady buzz of flies the homeward-bound agent was lying flushed and insensible" }, { "mean": "A whisper." }, { "mean": "The audible friction of voiced consonants." }, { "mean": "(informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.\nStill feeling the buzz from the coffee, he pushed through the last of the homework." }, { "mean": "(informal) A telephone call or e-mail." }, { "mean": "(informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.\n1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):Mr. Hall? The buzz on Christian is that his parents have joint custody, so he'll be spending one semester in Chicago and one semester here.\n2006 Sept. 6, Daren Fonda, \"Ford Motor's New Chief: \"I Think It's a Tough Situation\",\" Time:\nIn Detroit, the buzz is that he's too nice a guy, unwilling to impose draconian job cuts at the risk of angering the UAW.\n2011 Allen Gregory, \"Pilot\" (season 1, episode 1):\nAllen Gregory DeLongpre: Who's he?\nPatrick: He's only the most popular kid in school.\nAllen Gregory: Ah, the two heavyweights finally meet. Sure you're tired of all the buzz. Allen Gregory DeLongpre.\nJoel Zadak: Joel...Zadak!" }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”)" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.\n1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Hiawatha’s Childhood”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 47:Ah! the singing, fatal arrow, / Like a wasp it buzzed, and stung him !\n1922, D H Lawrence, “The Holy Family”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 14:So that now the universe has escaped from the pin which was pushed through it, like an impaled fly vainly buzzing: now that the multiple universe flies its own complicated course quite free, and hasn't got any hub, we can hope also to escape.", "submean": [ "(by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.\nc. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :However these disturbers of our peace / Buzz in the people's ears.", "Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.\n1928 February 25 – March 3​, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories , London: John Murray, , published , →OCLC, page 570:But I tell you this has set all London buzzing. The old man is where he likes to be, with a pin-point limelight right on his hairy old head.", "(chiefly of an insect) To fly while making such a sound.\nA fly was buzzing past me.\n1897, Bram Stoker, chapter XX, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:The flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room." ] }, { "mean": "(colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.\nc. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I will buzz abroad such prophecies / That Edward shall be fearful of his life." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice." }, { "mean": "(aviation) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.\n2013, The Economist, Stopping asteroid strikes: Defenders of the Earth\n an asteroid a mere 15-20 metres across exploded with the force of a medium-sized atom bomb over Chelyabinsk, in Russia, and another, much larger one buzzed Earth a few hours later." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.\n2012, Ellen Hartman, Out of Bounds (page 130)\nDeacon said, “You used to beg me to let you buzz your hair when you were little.” “And then I grew up and realized how awful you looked when you buzzed yours.”" }, { "mean": "(archaic, transitive) To drink to the bottom.\n1849, The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register\nHe buzzed the bottle with such a hearty good will as settled the fate of another, which Soapey rang for as a matter of course. There was but the rejected one, which however Spigot put into a different decanter and brought in" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.\n2012, Steven Joseph Sinopoli, The Seventh House (page 66)\nThen one day my secretary buzzed me and said Frank Sinatra was on the phone. When I picked up the phone it was the Chief who played dumb and would not admit that he said he was Frank Sinatra." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "abuzz\nbizz-buzz\nbuzz bomb\nbuzz button\nbuzz cut\nbuzz in\nbuzz off\nbuzz pollination\nbuzz saw\nbuzz up\nbuzz word\nbuzz-bomb\nbuzz-phrase\nbuzz-saw\nbuzz-word\nbuzzword\ncatch a buzz\nfizz-buzz\ngive someone a buzz\nglacial buzz saw" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "buzz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }