whizzing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of whiz
2. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of whizz

plural whizzings

1. The sound or action of something that whizzes.

   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

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   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

comparative more whizzing · superlative most whizzing

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