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[ verb ] make a buzzing sound
Examples "bees were buzzing around the hive" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Yet if he were not there , they would have missed him , as they would have missed the sounds of bees buzzing against the screen_door in early June ; or the smell of thick tomato_paste - the ripe smell that was both sweet and sour - rising_up from aluminum trays wrapped in fly dotted cheesecloth . |
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[ verb ] fly low
Examples "Planes buzzed the crowds in the square" Used in print (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)Setting a course straight for the house , he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face . Related terms |
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[ noun ] sound of rapid vibration
Synonyms Examples : "the buzz of a bumble bee" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)With these gadgets - impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light_bulbs , ticks , and buzzes - he then carries_out a vicious medical con_game , capitalizing on people 's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a confusion of activity and gossip
Examples "the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued" Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)All these emotions were screwed_up to new heights when , after acceptance and the first rehearsals , there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music_lovers that Duclos had_to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King 's amusements , and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau . |
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