buzzie

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining.

   • 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?
   • Both buzzies were broke down. Burke left me alone to do my work. I disconnected teh compressed-air lines, opened my tool box and got at it.
2. 2

   A woman's breast.

   • That's a fair pair of buzzies you've got there.
   • A nod an carry on dancing, bouncin about madly, glad a wore me sports bra - if a hadn't've then me buzzies'd be in agony by now.
3. 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.
   • 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.
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   1. 4

      A bur.

      • So, instead, he took to hoeing weeds — thistles and buzzies — from the nearer paddocks.
      • 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.
   2. 5

      A buzzing insect.

      • But be they flies or be they wasps, I neither care for buzzies nor stings.
      • 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.
      • A few of the little yellow buzzies were climbing in and out.
   3. 6

      A gypsy.

      • Actually, the Irish don't trouble themselves with which is which, but you buzzies get mighty frustrated trying to figure it out.
   4. 7

      Police officer.

      • "We're no buzzies!' Manuel says, but the slit scrapes shut.
   5. 8

      Anything that produces a buzzing sensation.

      • Uppers, downers, mood-altering buzzies. Junk.
      • “I want to show you this thing that I have.” The therapist brings out the EMDR NeuroTek machine with buzzies.

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