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whizzing en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Spinning rapidly.
2. Producing a whizz; giving off a whizzing noise.
   • 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. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154:

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whizzing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The sound or action of something that whizzes.
   • 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[…] 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:
   • At length it grew dark; they though, they heard a sound of whizzing and snorting in the air, such as the swans use to make in the winter time. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 214:

Forms

whizzing en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of whiz
   form of whiz
2. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of whizz
   form of whizz