buzz
Speech parts
1. buzz - Noun
2. buzz - Verb
3. Buzz - Proper noun
Meaning
To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
To sound forth by buzzing.
To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.
To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
To sound with a "buzz".
A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.
A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.
The audible friction of voice consonants.
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'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good.
The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.