whizzy, a. rare.
(ˈhwɪzɪ)
[f. whizz n.1 or v. + -y1.]
Characterized by whizzing; fig. (dial.) dizzy, giddy. Hence ˈwhizziness, quality or state of whizzing.
| 1839 Thackeray Leg. St. Sophia of Kioff xviii. 42 The swift arrow's whizziness causing a dizziness. 1866 Thornbury Greatheart lviii, I felt all whizzy and sleepy like. |
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Add: 2. a. Technologically innovative or advanced; up to date, modern. Cf. wysiwyg n. colloq.
| 1977 Observer (Colour Suppl.) 10 Apr. 24/1 If you're frustrated in your attempts to buy the latest thing, because you haven't much money or a wealth of whizzy shops around you, you have to concentrate on colour. 1986 Making Music Apr. 7/1 Both samplers are MIDI compatible, have built-in disk drives, and a whizzy Roland-style alpha wheel for modifying your sounds. 1989 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Aug. 23/2 Colleagues may use words like Platonic to describe his esthetic but for Jobs the technology is ‘neat’ and ‘whizzy’—as opposed to ‘bozo’ and brain-damaged. 1991 Money June 159/4 No matter how whizzy the technology, there's nothing like hands-on. |
b. [After whiz-kid.] Of a person: exceptionally talented or successful. Freq. in superl. colloq.
| 1979 Forbes (N.Y.) 3 Sept. 21/2 That K's still the whizziest whiz kid around—in a lot of other opinions as well as his own. 1991 Toronto Star 28 June b4/2 The team is a joke, a non-team really, composed of rookies and whiz kids more cheesy than whizzy. |