tazz
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A heap of tangles or knots, especially in hair.
Example Sentences
- "It’s bad for him [the dog] if he’s kept tied up in that dismal place, and perhaps not properly fed. I say, how would it be if I tazzed down there and had a look at him?"
- "I was riding this whacking big motor bike […] and I was being chased by all the girls from the Younger Generation [etc.] […] And then all of a sudden, Mary Whitehouse came tazzing up and overtook the lot of them, and she was riding a horse […]"
- "This was an enormous Ford Zephyr 6 capable of doing 100 m.p.h. as I discovered tazzing down the motorway[.]"
- "The kooky pair were snapped at a ski resort in Khvalynsk, Russia by video director Alexander Kalinin from studio Dr Creative tazzing down the slopes in little more than bikinis."
- "Well, the autumn leaffall timetable has been running a fortnight and this is the first time I've had to get off for a ten- minute^([sic]) stop at Longbridge because the train tazzes through…"
- "Fireblade SP bikes and Civic Type R cars will be tazzing about the Island, letting marshals and medics get to where they need to be sharpish..."
Etymology
Unknown, though questionably related to North Yorkshire tazzed (“overmatched, defeated, beaten, unable to accomplish one's end”, adjective) recorded circa 1870. The proposed sense development would be someone who has been passed by another, faster competitor in race (who is tazzing) is therefore tazzed.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
tazzy