whizzing

English

Verb

whizzing

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

Noun

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 […]

Adjective

whizzing (comparative more whizzing, superlative most whizzing)

1. Spinning rapidly.
2. Producing a whizz; giving off a whizzing noise.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, 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.