Meaning

5 senses

  1. (in the plural, often)A very small piece of plush material such as lint.

    You've got a fuzzy on your coat.

  2. Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.

  3. (slang)A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering.

  4. (slang)A soldier with the rank of private.

  5. (slang)A police officer.

Examples

28 sentences

  1. Tom had a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from his rearview mirror.

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  2. I feel all warm and fuzzy.

    deMir ist ganz warm und wohlig zumute.

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  3. It's soft and fuzzy.

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  4. This rice cooker uses fuzzy logic.

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  5. Sami's head was getting very fuzzy.

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Origin

Uncertain. Apparently from fuzz + -y, though some sources suggest that fuzz derives from f

Uncertain. Apparently from fuzz + -y, though some sources suggest that fuzz derives from fuzzy. Compare fozy, or Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”).

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Forms

plural: fuzzies
Singularfuzzy
Pluralfuzzies

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
futureA1futuristicfuzzggab
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