peach fuzz

English

Noun

peach fuzz (uncountable)

1. (literally) The fibrous material covering the skin of a peach fruit, e.g. as opposed to the fuzzless skin of a nectarine.
2. (figuratively) Lightly or sparsely grown hair, especially facial hair.
   • 2006, Keith Malinsky, Burying Ronald: A Confession by Mortimer J. Pentowski, page 37:

     If she was slightly more attractive, I believe that the peach fuzz on the bottom of my nut sack would have tingled just slightly then, watching her cry like that.

Translations

fiber on a peach's exterior

• Japanese: 桃の毛 (モモのけ, momo no ke)
• Swedish: fjun (sv) n

sparse hair

• Polish: koper (pl) m
• Swedish: fjun (sv) n