whiz

or whizz

[ hwiz, wiz ]

/ ʰwɪz, wɪz /

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verb (used without object), whizzed, whiz·zing.

to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.

to move or rush with such a sound: The angry hornets whizzed by in a cloud.

verb (used with object), whizzed, whiz·zing.

to cause to whiz.

to treat with a whizzer.

noun

Informal. a person who is quite good at a particular activity, in a certain field, etc.: She's a whiz at math.

the sound of a whizzing object.

a swift movement producing such a sound.

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Origin of whiz

1540–50; imitative; cf. fizz

OTHER WORDS FROM whiz

whiz·zing·ly, adverb

Definition for whiz (2 of 2)

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[ hwiz, wiz ]

/ ʰwɪz, wɪz /

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wizard (def. 3).

Origin of whiz

By shortening

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A wooden chair whizzed past my left ear and smashed into the steel door like a gunshot.
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“As I crossed the ABC newsroom, Diane Sawyer whizzed by carrying a thick stack of papers,” she writes.
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Stuck on a stalled train last week, I sank into Security and the hours whizzed painlessly by.
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The men had crept up so quietly that not till the spear whizzed through the air did he suspect danger.
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The shaft whizzed away with force enough to delight him, and, lo, there was the first bow-and-arrow!
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Barker dodged, but the edge of it cut open his eyebrow as it whizzed by, and the blood flowed fast.
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On our way we had a near shave, for out of the darkness whizzed a shrapnel shell.
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A tomato whizzed past his ear and splattered against the wall.
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verb (used with object), whizzed, whiz·zing.

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