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▪ I. whizz, whiz, n.1|hwɪz|
[f. whizz, whiz v.]
1. a. An act, or the action, of whizzing; a sibilant sound somewhat less shrill than a hiss, and having a trace of musical tone like a buzz; a swift movement producing such a sound.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 201* Through skies by night shee flingeth, and Her whizze earth's darknesse teares. 1682Bunyan Holy War 74 Their shot would go by their ears with a Whizz. 1713Guardian No. 92 ⁋5 He never once Duck'd at the whizz of a Cannon Ball. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. iii. xvii, Like the whizz of my cross-bow. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xxvi, The..whiz and scream of the arriving trains. c1850‘Dow, Jr.’ in Jerdan Yankee Hum. (1853) 78 Shall we lumber along the road, and allow other nations to pass us with a whiz? 1897Meredith Amazing Marr. ix, Amid a whizz of scythe-blades.
b. The practice of picking pockets (chiefly in phr. on the whizz); a pickpocket. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1925E. Jervis 25 Yrs. in Six Prisons i. 17 Some of the boys are ‘on the whiz’ (pickpockets). 1931Amer. Speech VII. 117 Whiz, n. A pick-pocket. 1936‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid 245 They might pinch him for being on the whizz. 1963T. Tullett Inside Interpol xii. 162 The pickpocket, known in the underworld as the ‘whiz’..is always a specialist.
2. U.S. slang. An agreement, ‘bargain’.
The relation to sense 1 is not clear.
1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xl, They said, each to his fellow, Let us sleep here..And each..said, It is a whiz. 1876― Tom Sawyer xxxiv, ‘If we don't find it, I'll agree to give you my drum and everything I've got.’..‘All right—it's a whiz.’ 1888New York Times 30 Dec., ‘You will have to play that you are a boy, that I am master..Is it a whizz?’ he asked.
3. An act of urination. slang.
1971D. Clark Sick to Death i. 21 She could have left him alone..while she went for a whizz or changed her clothes.
4. attrib. and Comb., as whizz-boy, -man slang, a pickpocket; whizz-mob slang, a gang of pickpockets.
1931M. Allingham Police at Funeral vii. 95 How many murders do we get in this class... It's navvies, whizz-boys, car thieves..who run off the rails and commit murder. 1938F. Chester Shot Full xxv. 285, I used to frequent a number of public-houses, used by ‘the boys’, as criminals are known among the English. There were screwsmen,..‘whizz-men’,..and ‘drag-men’. 1959Listener 12 Mar. 485/1 The quick-fingered craft of those whom the Elizabethans called nips and we call whizz boys.
1932‘S. Wood’ Shades Prison House xix. 278 There one may rub shoulders with..thieves of every type, whiz-men, burglars, car-bandits.
1929G. Dilnot Triumphs of Detection iv. 47 A ‘wizz mob’ which operated, say, at Hammersmith Broadway, would immediately suspend business..if they saw a local detective in the vicinity. 1941J. Phelan Murder by Numbers v. 53 ‘Putting a smother they call it... Crowd cover up something...’ ‘I see. Like a whizz mob—pickpockets, I mean.’ 1955D. Webb Deadline for Crime iii. 52 Provincial police forces looked to him for help when they wanted their towns cleared of the ‘whiz mob’, as English pickpockets are known in the underworld.
▸ Brit. slang. Also wiz, wizz. Amphetamine; (also) amphetamines collectively. Cf. speed n. 7.
1988Which? July 334/1 (heading) Amphetamines (sometimes known as speed, whizz, sulphate). 1993Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Rev. Suppl.) 65 Dealers face tough competition in the drugs market: spliff (hashish).., whizz (amphetamines)..and Charlie (cocaine) are packaged in decorated containers with bright colours or sexy illustrations. 1995J. Cocker Sorted for E's & Wizz (song, perf. ‘Pulp’) in Different Class (music cassette inlay card) That's okay 'cos we're all sorted out for E's & wizz. 2001M. Steel Reasons to be Cheerful ii. 19 I've still got some of that whizz left over from Steve's party.
▪ II. whizz, whiz, n.2 slang (orig. U.S.).|hwɪz|
Also wiz |wɪz|.
[Perh. identical with whizz n.1, but in sense 1 b also regarded as f. wizard n.]
1. a. Something very remarkable.
1908G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock vii. 157 It is not only a whiz, but a hummah! You are in on the ground flo' of King Solomon's Mines, Limited. 1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 45 ‘Wonderful night.’ ‘It's a whiz.’ 1959Times 7 Dec. 13/3 Here are some of the gifts I have given to children in recent years: a massive iron key that could surely unlock the deepest dungeon in Nottingham Castle and makes a whizz of a paper-weight.
b. A person who is wonderfully skilful or talented in some respect.
1914‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 20 A person is designated as a ‘Whizz’ when he has exceptional ability along one or more lines. 1921H. Crane Let. 1 Oct. (1965) 66, I..have a strong notion that as a copy writer I will eventually make a ‘whiz’. 1924W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xiii. 142 Millie done fixed my game laig up with that ointment good as new. I want to tell you-all that girl is a wiz. 1928S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge i. 36 He thinks he's such a wiz at cars, but..he couldn't locate that squeak. 1948A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 69 He's an absolute whizz at Malicious Animal Magnetism. 1962E. B. White Let. 13 July (1976) 493 You chose a real whiz..when you picked me for your grammarian. 1978S. Brill Teamsters vi. 211 Malnik was well known..as an associate of long-time mob financial wiz Meyer Lansky. 1982Financial Times 22 June 9/2 He has since become a whizz at ping pong. 1984New Yorker 9 July 35/3 Little Nick Silver, a math whiz from Toughkenamon..was the youngest kid at camp. 1984Times 18 Oct. 14/6, I have a whizz of an accountant who will probably arrange things.
2. Comb.: whiz(z)-kid, an exceptionally successful or brilliant young person, esp. in politics or business; hence whiz(z)-kiddery, the phenomenon of whizz-kids; the style or mode of work of a whizz-kid.
1960Time 21 Nov. 100/1 The ‘Whiz Kids’—as the team soon was known. 1962Economist 22 Dec. 1202/1 Critics..regard President Kennedy as a quiz-kid surrounded by whiz-kids. 1966Ogilvy & Anderson Excursions in Number Theory ix. 103 Zerah Colburn was an early nineteenth-century mathematical whiz-kid. 1967Economist 24 June 1353/3 The whole programme has been a curious hotch-potch of whiz-kidery, preconceived theory and painstaking trial-and-error pragmatism. 1976Observer 26 Sept. 8/1 Many in the institutions—banks insurance companies, investment funds, Stock Exchange and so on—who swallowed whizz-kiddery in its myriad forms. 1976Time 27 Dec. 13/1 The sin of Whiz Kid Shelepin was that he tried to build a political base from which to promote his own post-Brezhnev candidacy for the top post. 1977M. Drabble Ice Age i. 27 Anthony was watching unedited film of an interview with Len the property whizz kid. 1977Times 4 July 22/3 Whizz⁓kiddery is out; gravitas is in. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 1079/5 Editors are a humble and obscure race; lacking the glamour of the whiz-kids and wheeler-dealers.., they are rarely seen in polite society, their names unknown to the columns of The Bookseller. 1981Sunday Express 25 Jan. 17/1 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will meet Britain's latest whizz-kid inventor when she hosts a unique gathering of inventors and financiers at Downing Street tomorrow. 1985Times 22 June 9/5 We have often been tempted to listen to the siren voices of those who would advise..the latest radical church services, guitars and steel bands and other forms of whizkiddery.
▪ III. whizz, whiz, v.
Also 6 whize, 7 whizze, 6, 9 dial. whuz(z.
[Echoic. Cf. hizz.]
1. a. intr. To make a sound as of a body rushing through the air (see whizz n.1); (of trees) to rustle; (of a burning or hot object) to hiss, sizzle. Now dial.
a1547Surrey æneis ii. 535 As wrastling windes..Befight themselves,..The woods do whiz. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 67 Thee flams surmounting tenements doo whize to the skyward. 1589[see whizzing ppl. a.]. 1627May Lucan vi. 199 The fire whizzes in burning eyes. 1675Dryden Aurengz. v. (1676) 85 'Tis dry—'twill burn—Ha, ha! how my old Husband crackles there!.. I know him; he'll but whiz, and strait go out. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Apr., Is Dilly gone to the Bath? His face will whizz in the water. 1763Colman Terræ-Filius No. 1. ⁋4 Some queer old Gentleman may be alarmed at the Crackers bouncing about his Ears,..or a Squib whizzing in his Periwig. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Whiz, to hiss like hot iron in water. 1841S. Warren Ten Thou. i, The sound of his tea-kettle, hissing, whizzing, sputtering in the agonies of boiling over.
†b. To wheeze. Obs.
1607[see whizzing vbl. n.]. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Pigeonneau, Il a mangé les pigeonneaux, said of a man that whizzes, or speakes hoarse. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 134/2 A Baboon Whizeth, hath a Shrill Whizing. 1748[see whizzing ppl. a. b].
2. a. To move swiftly with or as with such a sound.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. ix. lxix, The shot, gainst which no armour can suffice,..Doth whiz, and sing. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 44 The exhalations, whizzing in the ayre, Giue so much light, that I may reade by them. c1611Chapman Iliad xxii. 123 The Hauke comes whizzing on. 1697Dryden æneis xi. 1169 When the Jav'lin whizz'd along the Skies. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1723) II. 8 Both of us sitting together on the quarter-deck, heard a bullet whizzing over our heads. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. vii. 741 How the quoit Whizzed from the Stripling's arm! 1853Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1883) I. 423 The small, black steamers, whizzing industriously along. 1914‘Ian Hay’ Knt. on Wheels xiii. §2 Watching for the motors that whizzed..along the straight white road.
b. fig. To have a sensation of such a sound.
1797,1854[see whizzing vbl. n.]. 1865Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 34 Reading makes my head whiz. 1898[see whizzing vbl. n.].
3. trans. To cause to whizz; to hurl, shoot, or convey swiftly with a whizz; spec. in technical use, to dry by centrifugal force in a rapidly revolving apparatus (cf. whizzer b).
1836W. Irving Astoria xlv, He was on the point of whizzing a bullet into the target. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. vii, A Balearic slinger about to whizz the stone. 1882Crookes Dyeing & Tissue-Printing 228 Enter at 112° F., raise to a boil in three turns, wash well, whiz, and dry. 1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 39 Most of the wool is ‘whizzed’ after drying.
4. intr. To urinate. slang.
1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 24, I wish I was a gentleman As full of wet as a watering-can To whizz in the eye of a police-man. 1976R. B. Parker Promised Land vii. 37, I wondered if anyone had ever whizzed on Allan Pinkerton's shoe.
▪ IV. whizz, whiz, int. and adv.
An exclamation imitating the sound described under whizz n.1 and v.; as adv. = with a whizz. Cf. gee whizz int., whizz-bang int., n., and a.
1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Fire & Ale, The water..bubbled and simmer'd and started off, whizz! 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xx, Whiz went the bolt. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. xii. 347 When whiz and thump went axe. |