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Whiz

noun

Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whizz, wiz, wizard.

A buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air.

verb

(past & past part. whizzed; pres. part. whizzing) (Written also whizz)

Make a soft swishing sound. Synonyms: birr, purr, whir, whirr, whizz. "The car engine purred"

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"Whiz" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Gee whiz," Dick ejaculated, "is this straight, or are you only making it up to sound good to me? You can have it anyway ...

— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley

... more of the battle, being incessantly employed in carrying orders through the thick of it to generals commanding brigades, and even to battalions. The roar of battle was so tremendous that his horse, maddened with the din and the sharp whiz of the bullets, at times was well-nigh unmanageable, and occupied his attention almost to the exclusion of other thoughts; especially after it had been struck by a bullet in the hind quarters, and had come to understand that those strange ...

— With Frederick the Great - A Story of the Seven Years' War • G. A. Henty

... hour along the broad waters of the nineteenth century. None of your pendulum machines for me! I should, to be sure, turn away my head if I should hear you tick, and mark the quarters of hours; but the buzz and whiz of a good large life-endangerer would be music to mine ears. Oh, no! sure there is no danger of your requiring to be set down quite on a level, kept in a still place, and wound up every eight days. Oh no, no! you are not one of that numerous ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... volley of shots; and about that time Aunt Lydia descended to the parsonage door, and excited Dorothy threw open her window that she might wave to her lover until he was out of sight. As she drew back, she saw something whiz through the air past her aunt's head, striking the barn door beyond, ...

— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... Whiz—whiz! Out shot the loop like the dart of a rattlesnake, not at the head of the frightened lad, but at that ...

— Through Apache Lands • R. H. Jayne

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