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English
Verb
whizzing
- present participle and gerund of whiz
- present participle and gerund of whizz
Noun
whizzing (plural whizzings)
- The sound or action of something that whizzes.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 60, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:For, when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat, is like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings of a steam-engine in full play […]
Adjective
whizzing (comparative more whizzing, superlative most whizzing)
- Spinning rapidly.
- Producing a whizz; giving off a whizzing noise.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154:From inside the mill there came a whizzing, whirring, and clashing sound, and now and then a bright saw-blade flashed in the air, as if in combat with the spirits of the night, to cut the stumps and uneven ends off the logs.