fuzz

noun

1. Misspelling of fuss.

verb

Etymology: Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.”

1. To make fuzzy.
2. To become fuzzy.
3. To make drunk.

   “Or maybe my mind was just fuzzed with the drink.”

4. To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.

   “Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.”

5. To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.