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buzzing

nounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈbʌzɪŋ//

The sound produced by something that buzzes.

noun

  1. 1

    The sound produced by something that buzzes.

    I can hear buzzing coming from the television.

  2. 2

    Also a form of buzzgerund of buzz

    Surely it is an yl miſorder yͭ folk ſhalbe walking vp & down in the ſermon time (as I haue ſene in this place this Lent: & there ſhalbe ſuch huſſyng & buſſyng in the preachers eare, that it maketh hym oftentymes to forget his matter.

Etymology

Etymology tree English buzz Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English buzzing From buzz + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of buzzpresent participle and gerund of buzz

adjective

  1. 1

    slangVery happy; full of joyful excitement.

    'She was buzzing, mate, I tell you. She was so funny to listen to. It's the happiest phone call I've had off her in a while.'

    “Nice one? It's amazing! There's loads like that,” he tells me. “Everyone is raving about you.” I'm totally buzzing. It's a shame Mum and Granddad aren't here.

    'We shall see,' he said. 'But it did go unusually well , I must say.' You were absolutely buzzing when I met you at Paddington,' said Niall.

    "I thought we were good first half apart from the goal. I was in the toilet at half-time, I felt sick all morning but fine now, I feel buzzing."

Forms

plural
buzzings
comparative
more buzzing
superlative
most buzzing
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).