zizz

As she spoke, the gnat-like zizz of an Israeli drone circling overhead grew louder.

And now, having reached the end of the alphabet, I think I shall go off and have a quiet zizz.

But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache.

Inheriting a university that stood second only to Harvard in scholarship, Hutchins has made Chicago preeminent in another quality�intellectual zizz.

It is thought that the vibrations are felt rather than heard, in the sense that we use the word “hear”; if one has ever had a cicada zizz in one’s hand, the electrical shocks which seem to go up the arm help the belief in this idea.