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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WHIZ, v.t. [It seems to be allied to hiss.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air.
It flew, and whizzing cut the liquid way.
WHIZ, n. A hissing sound.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]
2: a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air; "he heard the whiz of bullets near his head" v
1: make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" [syn: whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb or whizz (whizzed; whizzing) Etymology: imitative Date: 1582 intransitive verb 1. to hum, whir, or hiss like a speeding object (as an arrow or ball) passing through air 2. to fly or move swiftly especially with a whiz <cars whizzing by> transitive verb to cause to whiz; especially to rotate very rapidly II. noun or whizz (plural whizzes) Date: 1620 1. a hissing, buzzing, or whirring sound 2. a movement or passage of something accompanied by a whizzing sound 3. sometimes vulgar an act of urinating — used especially in the phrase take a whiz III. noun (plural whizzes) Etymology: probably by shortening & alteration Date: 1914 wizard 3 <a math whiz>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. (also whizz) colloq. --n. 1 the sound made by the friction of a body moving through the air at great speed. 2 (also wiz) colloq. a person who is remarkable or skilful in some respect (is a whiz at chess). --v.intr. (whizzed, whizzing) move with or make a whiz. Phrases and idioms: whiz-bang colloq. 1 a high-velocity shell from a small-calibre gun, whose passage is heard before the gun's report. 2 a jumping kind of firework. whiz-kid colloq. a brilliant or highly successful young person. Etymology: imit.: in sense 2 infl. by WIZARD

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Whiz Whiz, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whizzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Whizzing.] [Of imitative origin. ???. Cf. Whistle, and Hiss.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound. [Written also whizz.] It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Whiz Whiz, n. A hissing and humming sound. Like the whiz of my crossbow. --Coleridge.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Buzz, whir. II. n. Whirring, buzzing, buzzing, noise.

Moby Thesaurus

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