[f. WHIZZ v. + -ING1.] The action or sound denoted by WHIZZ.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 11. Of the Cynocephale or Baboun…. Their voyce is a shrill whizing.
1631. Anchoran, Comenius’ Gate Tongues, 110. For feare the hinges should make some noyse (or whizzing).
1710. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), VI. 623. His horse, being frighted by the whizzing of a cannon ball, threw him.
1797. T. Morton, Cure for Heart-ache, I. ii. 11. Such a whizzing and spinning in my head.
1832. Ht. Martineau, Manch. Strike, vi. 65. The incessant whizzing and whirling of the wheels.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., She complain’d of such a whuzzing in her ears.
1884. W. S. B. McLaren, Spinning (ed. 2), 49. The whizzing in the hydro-extractor is sufficient.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 818. Whizzings in the head … are complained of.
b. attrib. Whizzing-stick = WHIZZER a.
1890. Amer. Anthrop., III. 258. The ‘Whizzing-Stick’ or ‘Bull-Roarer’ on the West Coast of Africa.
