noun / verb

fuzz

FUHZ/fʌz/

A soft covering of fine indistinct fibers.

A thin layer of soft fuzz covers the peach's skin.

A close-up of a peach whose surface is covered in soft, fine fuzz, with delicate short hairs clearly visible along its silhouette and across its skin.

Etymology

Fuzz has an uncertain origin. Its earliest recorded use is in a term for a puffball of tiny spores, providing an early context for the sense of fine, fluffy material.

In context

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a nice little fuzz ball right there all right so this is traffic the area from the hallway to the kitchen always pretty dirty must have been some pets in here kiss see got some pet hair here looks

Cleaning Vlog #1 / Deep cleaning apartment carpet / Satisfying Carpet Cleaning

More examples

The blanket leaves fuzz on my black pants.
Soft fuzz grows on the baby's head.
A weak signal fuzzes the picture on the screen.

Forms

fuzz · fuzzes · fuzzed · fuzzing

fuzzy adjective — Covered with soft, fine hair or fibers.

Similar words

down: Especially soft, fine feathers or hair forming a covering.
lint: Loose fabric fibers, rather than a naturally growing covering.