"buzzie" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbʌzi/ Forms: buzzies [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌzi Etymology: From buzz + -ie. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|buzz|ie}} buzz + -ie Head templates: {{en-noun}} buzzie (plural buzzies)
  1. (mining, slang) A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Mining, Law enforcement, Musical instruments, Woodwind instruments Categories (lifeform): Insects
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-PX-oGvYd Disambiguation of Law enforcement: 30 1 15 12 2 14 20 6 Disambiguation of Musical instruments: 27 1 28 11 4 10 11 8 Disambiguation of Woodwind instruments: 27 1 29 11 4 10 10 8 Disambiguation of Insects: 34 1 12 14 8 11 12 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ie, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 0 14 15 1 14 13 8 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ie: 29 1 12 14 4 16 15 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 35 1 15 14 1 14 14 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 1 11 15 1 14 15 8 Topics: business, mining
  2. (slang) A woman's breast. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-NqL3Aq-T
  3. (music) A capped double-reed instrument. Categories (topical): Music, Musical instruments, Tools, Woodwind instruments
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-LH8g9D4z Disambiguation of Musical instruments: 27 1 28 11 4 10 11 8 Disambiguation of Tools: 17 3 37 3 8 12 12 8 Disambiguation of Woodwind instruments: 27 1 29 11 4 10 10 8 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  4. A bur. Categories (topical): Musical instruments, Woodwind instruments
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-7tIF2qXo Disambiguation of Musical instruments: 27 1 28 11 4 10 11 8 Disambiguation of Woodwind instruments: 27 1 29 11 4 10 10 8
  5. A buzzing insect.
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-LdSrOaA~
  6. (Ireland) A gypsy. Tags: Ireland Categories (topical): Musical instruments
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-sTbjY71v Disambiguation of Musical instruments: 27 1 28 11 4 10 11 8 Categories (other): Irish English
  7. (Scotland) Police officer. Tags: Scotland Categories (topical): Musical instruments, Woodwind instruments
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-ChyHOf-W Disambiguation of Musical instruments: 27 1 28 11 4 10 11 8 Disambiguation of Woodwind instruments: 27 1 29 11 4 10 10 8 Categories (other): Scottish English
  8. (informal) Anything that produces a buzzing sensation. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-buzzie-en-noun-nVu7~V5N

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        {
          "ref": "1976, International Trumpet Guild, ITG Journal - Volumes 1-5, page 32:",
          "text": "The brilliant qualities of the Diritto and the Curvo seem to lend themselves to use with sackbutts or large mixed ensembles composed of \"buzzies\" such as shawms, racketts, and crumhorns.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Suzanne Eve Hirschman, Digital waveguide modeling and simulation of reed woodwind instruments:",
          "text": "...a large family of capped reeds, often referred to collectively and affectionately as buzzies, which contains many straight, cylindrical bore instruments such as Cornemusen (a term sometimes applied in general to the family), Schreierpfeiffen, and a modern generic reproduction known as the Glastonbury Pipe, to be discussed in more detail further on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Early Music: A Very Short Introduction, →ISBN, page 47:",
          "text": "The “buzzies,” capped double-reed instruments like the crumhorn, the dulcian, the rankett (or “rackett”), provide a change of sonority, and sometimes an outburst of hilarity, when one of them is used or a consort is played together.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A capped double-reed instrument."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "capped",
          "capped"
        ],
        [
          "double-reed",
          "double-reed"
        ],
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A capped double-reed instrument."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, John Rowland Skemp, Memories of Myrtle Bank:",
          "text": "So, instead, he took to hoeing weeds — thistles and buzzies — from the nearer paddocks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Susan Lucas, Inside my Skin, →ISBN, page 291:",
          "text": "If there are idle times in my day Ms Tia certainly knows how to fill them, applying her weedicide program to padddocs she returned on two occasions with fur covered in buzzies.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Helen Hodgman, Jack and Jill, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "The high spot of the week was when they combed the contents of her bottle-brush head—burrs and buzzies, various creepy-crawlies dislodged from the greenery as she tripped past—out onto an old copy of the Sydney Morning Herald and burned the result.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Jim Bennet, South End Boy: Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s, →ISBN:",
          "text": "That triangle of tangled undergrowth was infested with clothes-grabbing burdocks (“buzzies” we called them) and beggar's ticks.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bur."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bur",
          "bur"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1846, John Campbell, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England:",
          "text": "But be they flies or be they wasps, I neither care for buzzies nor stings.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Sharon S. Delaney, Celestial Mesa: 2012, →ISBN, page 120:",
          "text": "Sue had climbed up to the rafters and attached her mosquito netting over one of the exposed beams in the ceiling, and Edgar had climbed into the bed under it so no flying buzzies would mess with his ears.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Carolyn Long Silvers, My Walls Speak, →ISBN, page 135:",
          "text": "A few of the little yellow buzzies were climbing in and out.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A buzzing insect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "buzz",
          "buzz"
        ],
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Suzanne Supplee, When Irish Guys Are Smiling, →ISBN, page 42:",
          "text": "Actually, the Irish don't trouble themselves with which is which, but you buzzies get mighty frustrated trying to figure it out.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gypsy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gypsy",
          "gypsy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland) A gypsy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Denise Mina, The Long Drop, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "\"We're no buzzies!' Manuel says, but the slit scrapes shut.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Police officer."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Police officer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Lindsay Longford, Lover in the Shadows, →ISBN, page 85:",
          "text": "Uppers, downers, mood-altering buzzies. Junk.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Tony Bertauski, Halfskin: A Technothriller, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When Nix got sick, he didn't feel like other people felt. He didn't get sluggish or throw up. He buzzed. It wasn't anything someone could hear, just an intense humming that sizzled all over. His sister couldn't hear it, but she could tell just by looking at him. The buzzies are back.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Robbie Adler-Tapia, Carolyn Settle, EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“I want to show you this thing that I have.” The therapist brings out the EMDR NeuroTek machine with buzzies.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that produces a buzzing sensation."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Anything that produces a buzzing sensation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʌzi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌzi"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "buzzy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "buzzie"
}

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