muzz

Verb

muzz (third-person singular simple present muzzes, present participle muzzing, simple past and past participle muzzed)

1. (archaic, slang) To study intently; to pore over.
   • MUZZ: To be studious. ‘I was muzzing up my Virgil.’1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, “A Westminster Glossary”, in Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 230
2. (obsolete, slang) To hang around aimlessly; to loiter.
   • ‘If You but knew, cried I, to whom I am going to Night! and who I shall see to Night! – you would not dare keep me muzzing here!’1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 105
3. (slang) To make muzzy or hazy; to confuse.