buzzle

present singular third person buzzles · participle present buzzling · participle past buzzled · past buzzled

1. intransitiveTo buzz repeatedly or continuously; whirr

   Butterflies plagued Plante before a game, and shivers buzzled between his shoulder blades.

   2014, Stephen Smith, Puckstruck

   3 more examples

   'It's here, you see, but we just ran out into the garden to tell Daddy the telephone was ringing, and it all went sort of fizzy and buzzled all over the stove.'

   2007, Miss Read, Christmas at Fairacre - Page 237

   It buzzled and zipped behind the wastebasket; I lunged and stomped, my pooch belly heaving and my underarms waggling as John and Hattie cheered me on.

   2012, Phoebe Baker Hyde, The Beauty Experiment

   There was a time every spring when bees swarmed all over the brambles and the apple and pear trees. Every tree hummed, and furry bees buzzled and flew, in and out, from flower to flower. It was a beautiful time, full of promise and life.

   2015, Jamie Alan Belanger, D.L. Harvey, Shelli-Jo Pelletier, Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions

2. transitiveTo cause to buzz; flurry

   Hold, hold, master, spare me for heaven's sake I remember my Lady Faddle, she once sent me of an errand; your compliments buzzled me and put it out of my head.

   1874, John Crowne, The Dramatic Works - Volume 3 - Page 77

1. A township in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States, named after Buzzle Lake.