fuzz

Example Sentences

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Softer she wuz, and had to be, than any fuz that was ever on any cotton flannel fur or near.

From Samantha at Saratoga by Holley, Marietta

Not he; he slouches his hat over's eyes, and stands quite cool by fust fuz bush—I minded then as we was out o' our beat.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

They mostly had their long hair tied up and sticking out in a fuz behind, as funny a long line of men as ever one saw.

From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore

Fuzz, fuz, v.i. to fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound like water from hot iron.—n. fine light particles, as dust, down, &c.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

They have the pinkness of the peach, almost, without the fuz and they are covered with a thin skin which is taken off usually with the fingers.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920 by Northern Nut Growers Association