buzzy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbʌzi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌzi
- Homophone: buzzie
Adjective
buzzy (comparative buzzier, superlative buzziest)
- Having a buzzing sound.
- (informal) Being the subject of cultural buzz.
- 2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian:
- These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.
- April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
- For media workers, especially those at the start of their careers, it quite literally pays to be visible and visibly liked on Twitter, and posting about your dog alongside analyses of the supply chain, or perhaps a buzzy TV show, is a reliable way to achieve likability, whether you’re conscious of it or not.
- (informal) Using a large number of buzzwords. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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