- [uncountable]
short soft fine hair or fur that covers something, especially a person’s face or arms synonym down茸毛,绒毛(尤指人脸或手臂的) - [singular]
a mass of curly hair 鬈发 a fuzz of blonde hair 一团金色鬈发
- the fuzz[singular + singular or plural verb] (old-fashioned, slang)
the police 警方 something that you cannot see clearly synonym blur模糊的东西
Word Originsenses 1 to 2 and sense 4 late 16th cent.: probably of Low German or Dutch origin; compare with Dutch voos, Low German fussig ‘spongy’. sense 3 1920s (originally US): of unknown origin.