buzzies

Noun

buzzie (plural buzzies)

1. (slang) A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining.
   • Dredging wasn't mining. A man had to know something about lode mining, and could Andy name a man working on the boat who knew a muckstick from a buzzie?1950, Helen Rich, The Willow-bender: A Novel, page 236
2. (slang) A woman's breast.
   • That's a fair pair of buzzies you've got there.1992, Mike Harding, Last Tango in Whitby, page 27
3. A capped double-reed instrument.
   • The brilliant qualities of the Diritto and the Curvo seem to lend themselves to use with sackbutts or large mixed ensembles composed of "buzzies" such as shawms, racketts, and crumhorns.1976, International Trumpet Guild, ITG Journal - Volumes 1-5, page 32
4. A bur.
   • So, instead, he took to hoeing weeds — thistles and buzzies — from the nearer paddocks.1952, John Rowland Skemp, Memories of Myrtle Bank
5. A buzzing insect.
   • But be they flies or be they wasps, I neither care for buzzies nor stings.1846, John Campbell, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England
6. (Ireland) A gypsy.
   • Actually, the Irish don't trouble themselves with which is which, but you buzzies get mighty frustrated trying to figure it out.2008, Suzanne Supplee, When Irish Guys Are Smiling, →ISBN, page 42

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