whizzing

whizzing

1. present participle and gerund of whiz
2. present participle and gerund of whizz

whizzing (plural whizzings)

1. The sound or action of something that whizzes.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 60, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     For, when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat, is like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings of a steam-engine in full play […]

whizzing (comparative more whizzing, superlative most whizzing)

1. Spinning rapidly.
2. Producing a whizz; giving off a whizzing noise.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154:

     From inside the mill there came a whizzing, whirring, and clashing sound, and now and then a bright saw-blade flashed in the air, as if in combat with the spirits of the night, to cut the stumps and uneven ends off the logs.