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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Whizzed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Whizzing

[Of imitative origin. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK]. Cf.

, and

To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

[Written also

whizz

It flew, and

whizzing

, cut the liquid way.

Dryden.

Noun.

A hissing and humming sound.

Like the

whiz

of my crossbow.

Coleridge.

Verb.

[It seems to be allied to hiss.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air.

It flew, and whizzing cut the liquid way.

Noun.

A hissing sound.