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Definition of Fuzzy
1. Adjective. Covering with fine light hairs. "His head fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed"
2. Adjective. Indistinct or hazy in outline. "The trees were just blurry shapes"
Similar to: Indistinct
Derivative terms: Blur, Blurriness, Fog, Fogginess, Fuzziness, Haze, Haziness
3. Adjective. Confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out. "A vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance"
Definition of Fuzzy
1. a. Not firmly woven; that ravels.
Definition of Fuzzy
1. Adjective. Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals. Mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme ''Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.'' ¹
2. Adjective. Vague or imprecise. ¹
3. Adjective. Not clear; unfocused. ¹
4. Noun. an individual flake of fuzzies ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fuzzy
1. blurry [adj FUZZIER, FUZZIEST] : FUZZILY [adv] - See also: blurry
Medical Definition of Fuzzy
1. 1. Not firmly woven; that ravels. Alternative forms: fozy. 2. Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach. See: Fuzz. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fuzzy
Literary usage of Fuzzy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"fuzzy WUZZY" (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) WE'VE fought with many men acrost the
seas. ... Then 'ere's to you, fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' the missis and the kid; ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
""fuzzy-WUZZY" (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) WE'VE fought with many men acrost ...
So 'ere's to you, fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore ..."
3. Camera by Columbia Photographic Society, Philadelphia (1916)
"He also wishes to know it there is any reason for this "pretended admiration of
the fuzzy." Let him ask the greatest artists in the country what they get ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"A fuzzy outline is woolly and indistinct. Metaphorically to fuzz or fuzzle is to
confuse the head with drink, to muddle with drink. ..."
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