English Dictionary

buzz

/bʌz/

verb

(by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. / Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.

The bees buzzed around the flowers.

意味（1）

(by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.

However these disturbers of our peace / Buzz in the people's ears.

意味（2）

Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.

But I tell you this has set all London buzzing. The old man is where he likes to be, with a pin-point limelight right on his hairy old head.

意味（3）

(chiefly of an insect) To fly while making such a sound.

A fly was buzzing past me.

意味（4）

(colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.

意味（5）

(transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.

I will buzz abroad such prophecies / That Edward shall be fearful of his life.

意味（6）

(transitive) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.

意味（7）

(aviation) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.

[…] an asteroid a mere 15-20 metres across exploded with the force of a medium-sized atom bomb over Chelyabinsk, in Russia, and another, much larger one buzzed Earth a few hours later.

意味（8）

(transitive) To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.

Deacon said, “You used to beg me to let you buzz your hair when you were little.” “And then I grew up and realized how awful you looked when you buzzed yours.”

意味（9）

(archaic, transitive) To drink to the bottom.

He buzzed the bottle with such a hearty good will as settled the fate of another, which Soapey rang for as a matter of course. There was but the rejected one, which however Spigot put into a different decanter and brought in […]

意味（10）

(transitive) To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.

Then one day my secretary buzzed me and said Frank Sinatra was on the phone. When I picked up the phone it was the Chief who played dumb and would not admit that he said he was Frank Sinatra.