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Fuzzy   /fˈəzi/   Listen
Fuzzy

adjective
1.
Covering with fine light hairs.  Synonym: fuzzed.
2.
Indistinct or hazy in outline.  Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, hazy, muzzy.  "The trees were just blurry shapes"
3.
Confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out.



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"Fuzzy" Quotes from Famous Books



... but could not. Turn as I would, using my hands to steady me, I only made a vain effort to get upon my feet, as I slipped each time quite flat again. Thinking to turn first, and get upon my knees, I tried that, but rolled like a fuzzy caterpillar in a ball upon the ice. Then, alas, I regret to relate it, but I really began to feel a little vexed. I began calling loudly, supposing that someone in the house would hear me, and come to my assistance; but the wind carried my voice away faster than I could ...
— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... alike, although both were fair. Dora had long sleek curls that never got out of order. Davy had a crop of fuzzy little yellow ringlets all over his round head. Dora's hazel eyes were gentle and mild; Davy's were as roguish and dancing as an elf's. Dora's nose was straight, Davy's a positive snub; Dora had a "prunes and prisms" mouth, Davy's was all smiles; and ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... of brown-skinned, fuzzy-headed natives, armed with spears, clubs, and bows and arrows, came slowly towards the camp. Their attitude was apparently friendly, but, remembering their reputation for treachery, Underhill did not trust them, and refused to leave the shelter of the barricade in answer to their invitation, ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang

... lasted for an eon, he thought. He had a sense of the passage of an enormous span of time when he at last awoke. His vision was fuzzy, but there was no mistaking the ...
— The Memory of Mars • Raymond F. Jones

... woman to the others, "it maun be some far-awa cousin, or the like, for Liston an' me hae nae near freends. Meg, ye idle fuzzy," screamed she to her servant, who was one of the spectators, "your pat is no on yet; div ye think the men will no be hungry when they come in ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade

... becomes fuzzy through wear because of the much shorter cotton fibers. The tendency can often be seen by rolling the goods between the ...
— Textiles and Clothing • Kate Heintz Watson

... red squaw's cayuse plug, The hand-car roars and raves, And pie-plant pies are now produced Above the Indian graves. I hear the oaths of pioneers, The caucus yet to be, The first low hum where soon will The fuzzy bumble bee. ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye

... man spoke, in towns and cities or country, for weeks the air was heavy with the smoke of rhetoric, and reasons, soggy and solid, and fuzzy logic and muddy proof were dragged like siege-guns to ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard

... the ground floor were filled with cheap, unattractive-looking European wares, with here and there a restaurant displaying its viands, and attracting flies. We recognized the bananas and occasionally a pineapple, but the other fruits were new to us—lanzones in white, fuzzy clusters like giant grapes; the chico, a little brown fruit that tastes like baked apple flavored with caramel; and the atis, which most natives prise as a delicacy, but which few Americans ever ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee

... Matt's deep, fuzzy voice. "And he isn't dead, either. Not by a long way! Now we'll get a magnifying ...
— The Raid on the Termites • Paul Ernst

... afraid's a queer thing," remarked her escort academically. "Now, me, I'm afraid of a fuzzy caterpillar. But I ain't exactly ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams



Words linked to "Fuzzy" :   hairy, hirsute, fuzz, incoherent, haired, fuzziness, muzzy, indistinct



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