buzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌzi/
rhymes: -ʌzi
homophone: buzzie
Forms: form: buzzier
form: buzziest
Etymology: From buzz + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Collins shifts the slide, and the trumpet phrase gets faster and faster until it blurs into a buzzy pitch.
ref: 1988 March 11, Kyle Gann, “Music Notes: Nicolas Collins plays the radio”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having a buzzing sound.
examples: text: This time, my host asked me if I was part of LinkedIn, a buzzy Web site intended to link people with similar business interests.
ref: 2007 January 21, Richard Siklos, “Big Media’s Crush on Social Networking”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2021:
text: In recent years, the region has tried to foster a buzzier tech scene, and now boasts successful home-grown companies like the educational technology provider EverFi as well as startup accelerators like the cybersecurity-focused Mach37, which is funded by the state of Virginia.
ref: 2018 November 13, Lydia DePillis, “Amazon’s next challenge: Finding all those workers”, in CNN Business:
text: One afternoon in June, I was out with a stranger at my local park. The algorithms recommended we meet. He told me he had been reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, a buzzy bestseller by Jenny Odell.
ref: 2021 January 22, Lilah Raptopoulos, “My tug-of-war with algorithms”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2021:
text: These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.
ref: 2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian:
text: For media workers, especially those at the start of their careers, it quite literally pays to be visible and visibly liked on Twitter, and posting about your dog alongside analyses of the supply chain, or perhaps a buzzy TV show, is a reliable way to achieve likability, whether you’re conscious of it or not.
ref: 2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2022:
text: There’s a good chance you’ve heard of the Ninja Creami by now. The original version of the ice cream maker has been around since 2021, but thanks to TikTok, it’s been one of the buzziest kitchen appliances lately.
ref: 2025 July 11, Amina Lake Patel, “I’ve used the Ninja Creami Deluxe ice cream maker that’s all over TikTok for a year. Here’s my review”, in CNN:
glosses: Being the subject of cultural buzz.
examples: text: The author is using some buzzy language—derived from prevailing theories in his discipline—that, when replicated throughout the manuscript, prompted a reader to worry that the work, while sensitive and brilliant, was jargon-y and dense.
ref: 2021, Pamela Haag, Revise: The Scholar-Writer’s Essential Guide to Tweaking, Editing, and Perfecting Your Manuscript:
glosses: Using a large number of buzzwords.
Derived terms: buzzily
buzziness