whiz

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wɪz/

• Rhymes: -ɪz

Alternative forms

• whizz

Verb

whiz (third-person singular simple present whizzes, present participle whizzing, simple past and past participle whizzed)

1. To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air
2. To rush or move swiftly with such a sound
3. To throw or spin rapidly
4. (slang) To urinate

Translations

to make a whirring or hissing sound

• Finnish: suhista (fi), sihistä (fi), sähistä (fi)

• Hungarian: süvít (hu)

to rush or move swiftly with such sound

• Finnish: suhahtaa (fi)

• Hungarian: süvít (hu), száguld (hu)

to throw or spin rapidly

• Finnish: sujauttaa (fi)

slang: wiz to urinate

• Finnish: suhuttaa (fi), suhauttaa (fi)
• Italian: urinare (it)
• Portuguese: mijar (pt)
• Russian: мочиться (ru) (močitʹsja), писать (ru) (pisatʹ)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пишати (sh) (pišati), шорати (sh) (šorati)

  Latin: pišati (sh), šorati (sh)

• Urdu: موتنا (ur) (mūtnā)

Noun

whiz (plural whizzes)

1. A whirring or hissing sound (as above)
2. (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something
3. (slang, especially with the verb “take”) Wiz; the act of urinating
4. (UK, slang, uncountable) amphetamine.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:skilled person

Translations

whirring or hissing sound

• Finnish: suhahdus (fi), sihinä (fi), sihahdus (fi), sähinä (fi), sähähdys (fi)
• Hungarian: süvítés (hu)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گڤه‌

someone remarkably skilled at something

• Finnish: taituri (fi), taitaja (fi), taitoniekka (fi)

slang: wiz as an act of urinating

• Portuguese: mijo (pt)