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whizzer

[hwiz-er, wiz-]
noun
  1. something that whizzes.
  2. a centrifugal machine for drying sugar, grain, clothes, etc.
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Origin of whizzer

First recorded in 1880–85; whiz1 + -er1

White

[hwahyt, wahyt]
noun
  1. Andrew Dickson,1832–1918, U.S. diplomat and pioneer of land-grant education.
  2. Byron R(aymond)Whizzer, 1917–2002, U.S. lawyer and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–93.
  3. Edmund,born 1940, U.S. novelist.
  4. Edward Douglass,1845–1921, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1910–21.
  5. Edward H(ig·gins), II [hig-inz] /ˈhɪg ɪnz/, 1930–67, U.S. astronaut: first American to walk in space 1965.
  6. E(l·wyn) B(rooks) [el-win] /ˈɛl wɪn/, 1899–1985, U.S. humorist and poet.
  7. George Leonard,1838–95, U.S. choral conductor.
  8. Gilbert,1720–93, English clergyman, naturalist, and writer.
  9. Patrick (Victor Mar·tin·dale) [mahr-tn-deyl] /ˈmɑr tnˌdeɪl/, 1912–90, Australian writer, born in England: Nobel Prize 1973.
  10. Stanford,1853–1906, U.S. architect.
  11. Stewart Edward,1873–1946, U.S. novelist.
  12. T(erence) H(an·bur·y) [han-buh-ree] /ˈhæn bə ri/, 1896–1964, English novelist.
  13. Theodore H.,1915–86, U.S. journalist and writer.
  14. Walter Francis,1893–1955, U.S. civil-rights leader and writer: executive secretary of the NAACP 1931–55.
  15. William A(l·an·son) [al-uh n-suh n] /ˈæl ən sən/, 1870–1937, U.S. neurologist, psychiatrist, and writer.
  16. William Allen,1868–1944, U.S. journalist.
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British Dictionary definitions for whizzer

White

1
noun
  1. a person, esp one of European ancestry, from a human population having light pigmentation of the skin
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adjective
  1. denoting or relating to a White person or White people
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White

2
noun
  1. Gilbert. 1720–93, English clergyman and naturalist, noted for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789)
  2. Jimmy. born 1962, English snooker player
  3. Marco Pierre. born 1961, British chef and restaurateur
  4. Patrick (Victor Martindale). 1912–90, Australian novelist: his works include Voss (1957), The Eye of the Storm (1973), and A Fringe of Leaves (1976): Nobel prize for literature 1973
  5. T (erence) H (anbury). 1906–64, British novelist: author of the Arthurian sequence The Once and Future King (1939–58)
  6. Willard (Wentworth) (ˈwɪlɑːd). born 1946, British operatic bass, born in Jamaica
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white

adjective
  1. having no hue due to the reflection of all or almost all incident lightCompare black (def. 1)
  2. (of light, such as sunlight) consisting of all the colours of the spectrum or produced by certain mixtures of three additive primary colours, such as red, green, and blue
  3. comparatively white or whitish-grey in colour or having parts of this colourwhite clover
  4. (of an animal) having pale-coloured or white skin, fur, or feathers
  5. bloodless or pale, as from pain, emotion, etc
  6. (of hair, a beard, etc) silvery or grey, usually from age
  7. benevolent or without malicious intentwhite magic
  8. colourless or transparentwhite glass
  9. capped with or accompanied by snowa white Christmas
  10. (sometimes capital) counterrevolutionary, very conservative, or royalistCompare Red (def. 2)
  11. blank, as an unprinted area of a page
  12. (of wine) made from pale grapes or from black grapes separated from their skins
    1. (of coffee or tea) with milk or cream
    2. (of bread) made with white flour
  14. physics having or characterized by a continuous distribution of energy, wavelength, or frequencywhite noise
  15. informal honourable or generous
  16. (of armour) made completely of iron or steel (esp in the phrase white harness)
  17. rare morally unblemished
  18. rare (of times, seasons, etc) auspicious; favourable
  19. poetic, or archaic having a fair complexion; blond
  20. bleed white to deprive slowly of resources
  21. whiter than white
    1. extremely clean and white
    2. informalvery pure, honest, and moral
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noun
  1. a white colour
  2. the condition or quality of being white; whiteness
  3. the white or lightly coloured part or area of something
  4. the white the viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of a bird's egg, esp a hen's egg; albumen
  5. anatomy the white part (sclera) of the eyeball
  6. any of various butterflies of the family PieridaeSee large white, small white, cabbage white
  7. chess draughts
    1. a white or light-coloured piece or square
    2. (usually capital)the player playing with such pieces
  8. anything that has or is characterized by a white colour, such as a white paint or pigment, a white cloth, a white ball in billiards
  9. an unprinted area of a page
  10. archery
    1. the outer ring of the target, having the lowest score
    2. a shot or arrow hitting this ring
  11. poetic fairness of complexion
  12. in the white (of wood or furniture) left unpainted or unvarnished
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verb
  1. (usually foll by out) to create or leave white spaces in (printed or other matter)
  2. obsolete to make or become white
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See also white out, whites
Derived Formswhitely, adverbwhiteness, nounwhitish, adjective

Word Origin for white

Old English hwīt; related to Old Frisian hwīt, Old Saxon hwīt, Old Norse hvītr, Gothic hveits, Old High German hwīz (German weiss)
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Word Origin and History for whizzer

white

n.

Old English hwit, from Proto-Germanic *khwitaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian hwit, Old Norse hvitr, Dutch wit, Old High German hwiz, German weiß, Gothic hveits), from PIE *kwintos/*kwindos "bright" (cf. Sanskrit svetah "white;" Old Church Slavonic sviteti "to shine," svetu "light;" Lithuanian sviesti "to shine," svaityti "to brighten").

As a surname, originally with reference to fair hair or complexion, it is one of the oldest in English, being well-established before the Conquest. Meaning "morally pure" was in Old English. Association with royalist causes is late 18c. Slang sense of "honorable, fair" is 1877, American English. The racial sense (adj.) of "of those races (chiefly European or of European extraction) characterized by light complexion" is first recorded c.1600. The noun in this sense ("white man, person of a race distinguished by light complexion") is from 1670s. White supremacy attested from 1902; white flight is from 1967.

White heat "state of intense or extreme emotion" first recorded 1839. White lie is attested from 1741. White Christmas is attested from 1857. White House at the U.S. presidential residence is recorded from 1811. White water "river rapids" is recorded from 1580s. White Russian "language of Byelorussia" is recorded from 1850; the mixed drink is from c.1978. White-collar as an adjective is from 1921; white-collar crime attested by 1964 (there is a white-collar criminaloids from 1934). Astronomical white dwarf is from 1924.

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Idioms and Phrases with whizzer

white

In addition to the idioms beginning with white

  • white as a sheet
  • white elephant
  • white feather
  • white flag, show the
  • white lie
  • white sale

also see:

  • black and white
  • bleed someone white
  • great white hope
  • show the white feather
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