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BUZZING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Noisy like the sound of a bee
Example:
the room was abuzz over the latest scandal
Synonyms:
abuzz; buzzing
Classified under:
Similar:
noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb buzz
Context examples:
They could not feel vibrations from a buzzing tuning fork as well as the control subjects could.
(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)
The pressure on his ear-drums was a pain, and there was a buzzing in his head.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Faster and faster yet they raced, the hoofs rattling like castanets, the yellow manes flying, the wheels buzzing, and every joint and rivet creaking and groaning, while the curricle swung and swayed until I found myself clutching to the side-rail.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mosquitoes came buzzing in and hummed sullenly round the room; the sea, which I could hear from thence, rumbled dull like an earthquake—black clouds were casting up over it; the moon was setting in the waves, broad and red, like a hot cannon-ball—she threw her last bloody glance over a world quivering with the ferment of tempest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The occasion was this: the kingdom is much pestered with flies in summer; and these odious insects, each of them as big as a Dunstable lark, hardly gave me any rest while I sat at dinner, with their continual humming and buzzing about mine ears.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The thought that has been buzzing about my brain lately is complete, and the theory proved. My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
After a pause he added, "But I don't want their souls buzzing round me, all the same."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
This seemed to puzzle him, so I followed it up:—A nice time you'll have some time when you're flying out there, with the souls of thousands of flies and spiders and birds and cats buzzing and twittering and miauing all round you.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then he began to whisper: 'Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life; and dogs to eat them, and cats too. All lives! all red blood, with years of life in it; and not merely buzzing flies!'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
