[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That whizzes: see the verb.
1589. A. F., Virg. Bucol., vii. 1. Daphnis … sat him downe vnder a whizzing holme.
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia (1890), 3. A stopping hinderance to their current and whuzing fall.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., XX. 231. When the whizzing Bels the silent ayre doe cleaue.
1638. W. Lisle, Heliodorus, IX. 152. A whizzing cloud of arrowes dimd the Sun.
a. 1769. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 734. My stun’d ear tingles to the whizzing tide.
1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., Tale Drury Lane, 165. Still o’er his head, while Fate he braved, His whizzing water-pipe he waived.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sk.-bk., xix. (1869), 284. A whizzing, screaming steam engine.
1870. Thornbury, Tour rd. Eng., I. ii. 27. [We] sweep on with whizzing wheels past broad nursery gardens.
b. Of a sound: Of the nature of a whizz.
1621. T. Williamson, trans. Goulart’s Wise Vieillard, 183. The heauens shall passe away, with a whizzing tempestuous noyse.
1664. S. Taylor, in Evelyn’s Pomona, 50. Which evaporates with a sparkling and whizzing noise.
1748. trans. Vegetius Renatus’ Distempers Horses, 183. He makes a whizzing Noise in his Breast.
1829. Good, Study Med. (ed. 3), I. 563. Whizzing voice. The voice accompanied with a whizzing or hissing sound.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 232/2. A peculiar whizzing sound,… perceptible on applying … a stethoscope to the tumour.
1891. Smiles, Mem. J. Murray, xx. II. 3. A whizzing sound in his ears.
Hence Whizzingly adv.
1844. L. Strack, trans. Zschokke’s Incidents of Social Life, etc., 160. The storm blew afresh, and threw the trees whizzingly together.
1911. Eleanor H. Abbott, Sick-a-Bed Lady, etc., 259. The only trouble about New York Romance lies just in the fact that it is so whizzingly premature.
