muzz

To study intently; to pore over.

Verb

  1. To study intently; to pore over.
    • MUZZ: To be studious. ‘I was muzzing up my Virgil.’ - 1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, “A Westminster Glossary”, in Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 230:
  2. To hang around aimlessly; to loiter.
    • ‘If You but knew, cried I, to whom I am going to Night! and who I shall see to Night! – you would not dare keep me muzzing here!’ - 1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 105:
  3. To make muzzy or hazy; to confuse.

Origin

Uncertain.

Forms

muzzes muzzing muzzed