Fuzz is a mass of fine light fibres or hair. A fuzz of hair, covered in fuzz, peach fuzz.
Peach fuzz is the fine down on a peach and, by extension, on a young face. On fabric it is the pilling that gathers with wear. In audio, fuzz is a distortion effect made famous by the electric guitar, and a fuzz pedal produces it deliberately. Note fuzzy, which means both covered in fuzz and out of focus — a fuzzy photograph; and fuzzy logic, which is a real branch of mathematics about degrees of truth.
1nounfuzzA mass of fine light fibres or hair.
“The baby's head was covered in soft golden fuzz.”
2noundistortionA distortion effect on an electric guitar.
“The guitarist stepped on a pedal, and the song exploded into loud, dirty fuzz.”
fuzz is fine fibres or distortion.
The word appeared in the seventeenth century, probably imitative or from Dutch. It belongs to a group of soft-sounding words — fluff, fuzz, fur — none of which has a clear ancestry.
unknown. Some dictionaries suggest a gem source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the sound of the action of blowing away light particles.”
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire