fuzz

1 filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" [syn: hair, tomentum]

2 uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: bull, cop, copper, pig]

3 a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" [syn: blur]

4 the first beard of an adolescent boy

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌz

Etymology 1

• Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source
• Some dictionaries suggest a

Noun

1. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
2. A blurred image.

Verb

1. Make or become fuzzy.

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

the fuzz

1. The police.

Fuzz may refer to:

• Vellus, a type of short, fine body hair on an animal
• Tomentum, a filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
• Focus (optics), a blur effect
• Fuzzbox, an electric guitar distortion effect
• A slang term for the police
• FuzzBuster, a brand of radar detector
• Fuzz (music company), a music label, artist promotion platform, and music community.
• The Fuzz (band), a 1970s music group

Mathematics and computer science

• Fuzz testing, a software testing technique
• Fuzzy associative matrix, an expression of fuzzy logic rules in matrix form
• Fuzzy Control Language, FCL, a language for implementing fuzzy logic
• Fuzzy control system, a controller which uses fuzzy logic
• Fuzzy mathematics, a fuzzy mathematics
• Fuzzy measure theory, a special class of measures.
• Fuzzy logic, an extension of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth
• Fuzzy game, a concept in combinatorial game theory
• Fuzzy set, an extension of the classical set theory used in fuzzy logic
• Fuzzy set operations, a set of operations performed on fuzzy sets
• Fuzzy string searching, an approximate string searching algorithm
• Fuzzy math, in the United States, the name given to the reformed method of teaching mathematics in school. Also used as a euphemism in the 2000 Presidential Election.

Arts and entertainment

• Fuzzy is a host of Network Ten's Video Hits
• Fuzz club, a Sheffield rock night
• Fuzzy dice, an automotive decoration
• Fuzzy Duck, a drinking game
• Fuzzy felt, a toy

Music

• Fuzzy (album), a 1993 album by Grant Lee Buffalo
• Fuzzy Logic (album), an album by Super Furry Animals

Comics, Children's books and films

• Fuzzy, a fictional furry extraterrestrial
• Fuzzy, a 1990s Boston-based new-wave band
• Fuzzy Knights, a comic strip
• Get Fuzzy comics
• Sam and Fuzzy, a comic strip

Police/Crime films

• Fuzz (film), 1972
• Hot Fuzz, a 2007 cop film starring Simon Pegg.

People

• Fuzzy Haskins, singer and guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic
• María Fernanda Malo, aka Fuzz, a Mexican actress
• Fuzz Scoota, a Detroit-based underground rapper
• Fuzzy Wuzzy
• Mark Ronson, Mark'The Fuzz' Ronson
• Fuzzy wuzzy angels, a group of Papua New Guinean people
• Fuzzy Zoeller, golfer
• Steve "Fuzz" Kmak, former bassist for Disturbed
• James “Fuzz” San Giovanni of Deep Banana Blackout
• Jeffrey "Fuzz" Reichman
• Fuzzy, vocalist of Fuzzy and BF of Lisa

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