Buzzie
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining. slang
"Dredging wasn't mining. A man had to know something about lode mining, and could Andy name a man working on the boat who knew a muckstick from a buzzie?"
- 2 A woman's breast. slang
"That's a fair pair of buzzies you've got there."
- 3 A capped double-reed instrument.
"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."
- 4 A bur.
"So, instead, he took to hoeing weeds — thistles and buzzies — from the nearer paddocks."
- 5 A buzzing insect.
"But be they flies or be they wasps, I neither care for buzzies nor stings."
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- 6 A gypsy. Ireland
"Actually, the Irish don't trouble themselves with which is which, but you buzzies get mighty frustrated trying to figure it out."
- 7 Police officer. Scotland
""We're no buzzies!' Manuel says, but the slit scrapes shut."
- 8 Anything that produces a buzzing sensation. informal
"Uppers, downers, mood-altering buzzies. Junk."
Example
More examples"Dredging wasn't mining. A man had to know something about lode mining, and could Andy name a man working on the boat who knew a muckstick from a buzzie?"
Etymology
From buzz + -ie.
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