Dredging wasn't mining. A man had to know something about lode mining, and could Andy name a man working on the boat who knew a muckstick from a buzzie?

Both buzzies were broke down. Burke left me alone to do my work. I disconnected teh compressed-air lines, opened my tool box and got at it.

Technology such as steam-powered hoists and "buzzies," hand-held, two-man air drills, speeded up production but did nothing to improve working conditions. The buzzies, in fact, produced so much fine dust that they led to a higher rate of silicosis, a debilitating respiratory disease, and were soon dubbed "widowmakers."

That's a fair pair of buzzies you've got there.

A nod an carry on dancing, bouncin about madly, glad a wore me sports bra - if a hadn't've then me buzzies'd be in agony by now.

The brilliant qualities of the Diritto and the Curvo seem to lend themselves to use with sackbutts or large mixed ensembles composed of "buzzies" such as shawms, racketts, and crumhorns.

...a large family of capped reeds, often referred to collectively and affectionately as buzzies, which contains many straight, cylindrical bore instruments such as Cornemusen (a term sometimes applied in general to the family), Schreierpfeiffen, and a modern generic reproduction known as the Glastonbury Pipe, to be discussed in more detail further on.

The “buzzies,” capped double-reed instruments like the crumhorn, the dulcian, the rankett (or “rackett”), provide a change of sonority, and sometimes an outburst of hilarity, when one of them is used or a consort is played together.

So, instead, he took to hoeing weeds — thistles and buzzies — from the nearer paddocks.

If there are idle times in my day Ms Tia certainly knows how to fill them, applying her weedicide program to padddocs she returned on two occasions with fur covered in buzzies.

The high spot of the week was when they combed the contents of her bottle-brush head—burrs and buzzies, various creepy-crawlies dislodged from the greenery as she tripped past—out onto an old copy of the Sydney Morning Herald and burned the result.

That triangle of tangled undergrowth was infested with clothes-grabbing burdocks (“buzzies” we called them) and beggar's ticks.

But be they flies or be they wasps, I neither care for buzzies nor stings.

Sue had climbed up to the rafters and attached her mosquito netting over one of the exposed beams in the ceiling, and Edgar had climbed into the bed under it so no flying buzzies would mess with his ears.

A few of the little yellow buzzies were climbing in and out.

Actually, the Irish don't trouble themselves with which is which, but you buzzies get mighty frustrated trying to figure it out.

"We're no buzzies!' Manuel says, but the slit scrapes shut.

Uppers, downers, mood-altering buzzies. Junk.

When Nix got sick, he didn't feel like other people felt. He didn't get sluggish or throw up. He buzzed. It wasn't anything someone could hear, just an intense humming that sizzled all over. His sister couldn't hear it, but she could tell just by looking at him. The buzzies are back.

“I want to show you this thing that I have.” The therapist brings out the EMDR NeuroTek machine with buzzies.

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