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# fuzz

«fuzz» in Mova's school dictionary: **soft, short, light hair or fibres, like on a peach or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (fuzz, uncountable); verb (fuzz, fuzzes, fuzzed, fuzzing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fuzz is soft, short, light hair or fibres, like on a peach or a baby duck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#m1)

2) Fuzz is a blurred or crackly sound or picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#m2)

3) In old slang, the fuzz means the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature, peaches, bees, some leaves and young birds have fuzz; in stories «fuzz» paints soft textures. In music and sound, fuzz is a buzzing distorted sound. Phrases: «peach fuzz», «a ball of fuzz», «fuzz on the screen».

### examples

- The peach was covered in soft fuzz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#x1)
- There was fuzz all over my black jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#x2)
- The ducklings looked like little balls of yellow fuzz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#x3)
- The old TV showed only fuzz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#x4)
- The bee's body is covered in fuzz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#x5)
- A light fuzz of hair grew on his chin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#x6)
- The radio's sound fuzzed when we drove into the tunnel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: «fuzzy». Double «z». «The fuzz» for police is old slang.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fuzz» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fuzz/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.