muzz

present singular third person muzzes · participle present muzzing · participle past muzzed · past muzzed

1. archaicslangTo study intently; to pore over.First known use 18th c.

   MUZZ: To be studious. ‘I was muzzing up my Virgil.’

   1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, “A Westminster Glossary”, in Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 230

2. obsoleteslangTo hang around aimlessly; to loiter.First known use 18th c.

   ‘If You but knew, cried I, to whom I am going to Night! and who I shall see to Night! – you would not dare keep me muzzing here!’

   1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 105

3. slangTo make muzzy or hazy; to confuse.First known use 18th c.