(as) fine as frog fuzz

colloquial Very good or excellent. Wow, that dress is as fine as frog fuzz—you look gorgeous! A: "How you feelin' these days, Al?" B: "Fine as frog fuzz, Jake!" Mabel, you've outdone yourself. This dish is truly fine as frog fuzz.

finer than frog fuzz

colloquial Very good or excellent. Often used as a response when one is asked how they are. Wow, you look finer than frog fuzz in that gorgeous dress! A: "How you feelin' these days, Al?" B: "Finer than frog fuzz, Jake!" Mabel, you've outdone yourself. This dish is truly finer than frog fuzz.

fuzz

slang The police. Come on, we've got to get out of here before the fuzz show up and bust us! Our community gets nothing but harassment from the fuzz in this city. I'm not surprised the fuzz eventually broke up that party—it was totally out of control.

fuzz man

slang The police. Come on, we've got to get out here before the fuzz man shows up and bust us! Our community gets nothing but harassment from the fuzz man in this city. I'm not surprised the fuzz man eventually broke up that party—it was totally out of control.

fuzz out

1. To blur an image of a person or thing in order to make it difficult or impossible to distinguish. A noun or pronoun can be used between "fuzz" and "out." My job was fuzzing out nudity from R-rated movies that we would play on our TV network. Newspapers were required to fuzz the boy out in pictures to protect his identity. I could fuzz out my kids' faces, I guess, but it's easy enough to just not post their pictures on social media.

2. To impair or dull one's senses or ability to think correctly, as due to intoxication. A noun or pronoun can be used between "fuzz" and "out." The doctor prescribed some pain medication after the surgery, but I hate the way it fuzzed me out. Sorry, I've been a bit fuzzed out ever since I hit my head. Yeah, I smoked some weed at the concert. I guess it fuzzed me out.

fuzzed

slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You guys were really fuzzed! I'm past the point in my life where I want to spend every weekend at a bar getting fuzzed. Wow, I must have been fuzzed if I got up and did karaoke at the bar last night!

fuzz-face

Someone who has a beard or stubble. No fuzz-faces for me, thanks—give me a clean-shaven guy any day. A: "Jeff's not normally a fuzz-face, so I bet he just wants to look older for this job interview." B: "Good point. Clean-shaven, he looks like he's 17!" I don't like to be a fuzz-face, actually. It just gets itchy so fast!

fuzzword

An intentionally vague or confusing term. Spare me the fuzzwords and just tell me what's really going on here. If you cheated on me, I want to know the truth—without fuzzwords like "sexual relations." Dylan is definitely guilty if he's using all those fuzzwords.

peach fuzz

informal A nickname for "vellus hair," a very thin, soft layer of hair, likened to that which appears on the skin of a peach. Have you seen the baby yet? She's absolutely adorable, with rosy cheeks and some red peach fuzz on her head. Looks like she's gonna be a redhead like her mama. I can't believe my son is already going through puberty. Growth spurts, moody outbursts, peach fuzz on his cheeks—the whole shebang.

fuzz

(fəz)

1. and fuzz man and fuzzy (tail) n. the police; a jail keeper; a detective. The fuzz is onto you. Tell the fuzz man I was out of town when the job was pulled.

2. and fuzzle in. to get drunk. They were just sitting there fuzzling away the day. He fuzzled and fuzzled like booze was going out of style.

fuzz man

verb

See fuzz

fuzz station

n. a police station. He had to spend about an hour at the fuzz station, but nothing happened to him.

fuzzed

and fuzzled and fuzzy

mod. alcohol intoxicated. You are too fuzzed all the time to hold the job. Pack!

fuzz-face

n. a man with a beard. (see also fungus-face.) A couple of fuzz-faces came in and asked for mustache wax.

fuzzword

n. a confusing term usually meant to obscure meaning. (see also buzzword.) The current crop of fuzzwords contains a few that have come back from the twenties.

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