whiz
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whiz¹
- /wɪz/
Rhymes with -ɪz
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic. Compare huzz, hizz, hiss.
In some noun senses perhaps derived from wizard. In the sense “remarkably skilled person”, it may also simply a misspelling of its shortened form wiz, or it may be a shortening of whiz kid, which may have a different origin, perhaps whiz(z) in the sense of “something very remarkable”, attested from 1908, or the interjection (as in whizz-bang or gee whiz).
In fact, whiz(z) in the sense of “something very remarkable” may be derived from whizz-bang in the sense of “conspicuously talented”, and in military slang whizz-bang (or whizbang) can mean “an exceptionally skilful person” (attested in 1916 and later), which whiz in the same sense seems to be a shortening of (whence presumably also whiz kid).
verb whizzes · whizzing · whizzed · whizz · wiz
- To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
- To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
- To throw or spin rapidly. I whizzed the ball past the catcher.
- To urinate. We whizzed in the bushes.
noun whizzes · whizz · wiz · wizz
- A whirring or hissing sound (as above). Immediately there was a ringing and a singing in the hills, and then a whispering and a lisping and a whiz and a buzz all about him, for the little people were now some whirling round and round in the dance, and others sporting and tumbling about in the moonshine, and playing a thousand merry pranks
- Someone who is remarkably skilled at something. He's a whiz with the computers.
- An act of urination. I have to take a whiz.
- Amphetamine. And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz
- Pickpocketing. This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]
whiz²
- /wɪz/
Rhymes with -ɪz
Where it comes from
See with.
preposition
- Pronunciation spelling of with.with
