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fuzzball

fuzzball noun: a ball of fuzzy material.

Noun

fuzzball (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzballs)

  1. A ball of fuzzy material.
    • I sit in my bedroom picking the pilly fuzzballs off my lambswool sweaters and the phone will ring.1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
  2. (countable, humorous, informal) Any soft, fuzzy creature.
    • Near-synonyms: furball, fluffball
    • Ferrets can be very entertaining little fuzzballs, but keeping a ferret as a pet is also a big responsibility.2009, Johannah Haney, Ferrets, page 7
    Synonyms:
    furball, fluffball
  3. (countable) A quantum description of a black hole in superstring theory.
  4. (countable) A puffball.
  5. (uncountable) An informal American street game resembling baseball.
  6. Synonym of pill (“ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing”).
    Synonyms:
    pill

Synonyms of fuzzball

Forms of fuzzball

pluralfuzzballs
alternative formfuzzy-ball

Origin of fuzzball

From fuzz + ball.

Questions about fuzzball

What does fuzzball mean?
Fuzzball means a ball of fuzzy material.
What part of speech is fuzzball?
Fuzzball is a noun.
What is the plural of fuzzball?
The plural of fuzzball is fuzzballs.

Words near fuzzball in the dictionary

  1. fuzz testing
  2. fuzz tests
  3. fuzz tone
  4. fuzz tones
  5. fuzzable
  6. fuzzball
  7. fuzzballs
  8. fuzzbox
  9. fuzzboxes
  10. fuzzbutt
  11. fuzzbutts

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