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名詞

buz (countable and uncountable, plural buzzes)

1. Obsolete form of buzz (“humming sound”).
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     As soon as a general buz gave him shelter, he added, in a low voice directed at Fanny, […]

   • 1831, James Rennie, Insect Architecture: Volume 3, page 90:

     The buz of flies has been found no less difficult to explain than the hum of bees.

2. Obsolete form of buzz (“counting game, fizz-buzz”).
   • 1876, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume 44, page 590:

     […] and finally, laughing and all tired out, they stopped to rest and to think of some other game. They played “Buz” till they were rested, and then “Genteel Lady,” where every time a little girl made a mistake she had to have a lamplighter stuck in her hair.

動詞

buz (third-person singular simple present buzzes, present participle buzzing, simple past and past participle buzzed)

1. Obsolete form of buzz.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Maria Edgeworth to this entry?)

   The bee […] began to stretch his wings and to clean himself, and to buz a little upon the flower.

アナグラム

• Uzb.