Buzz is what kind of word

The locals are fed up of being buzzed by military jets. Jane buzzed around serving drinks and chatting to her guests. Definition and synonyms of buzz from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Education. This is the British English definition of buzz. View American English definition of buzz. Change your default dictionary to American English. View the pronunciation for buzz. Open Dictionary. Other entries for this word.

Word Forms. Synonyms and related words. To make a continuous sound. Join us Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Want to learn more? More Like This Onomatopoeic words Onomatopoeic words beep bleep boohoo brrr buzz click clip-clop ding-dong hiss mwah peep ping plop pop rat-tat splat splosh squeak squeal squelch swish tee-hee thud thwack tick-tock toot vroom wham whoosh zoom.

Extra Examples A large helicopter buzzed overhead. A police helicopter was buzzing overhead. Word Origin late Middle English: imitative. The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. This caused me to investigate the edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors especially with the part-of-speech tagging for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing.

That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource.