bzzz.

n.  an electric shock.

<I reached for the mic to say hello to the crowd out there eating their fish.  Simultaneously, I held my electric guitar neck to silence its humming strings.  Bzzz!  An electric shock surged through me.  I saw blue and tossed the microphone stand three feet into the air.  —Jack Eadon, Got to Make It.> <The electric chair.  Old Sparky.  Bzzz, no more Umberto.  —Arthur Rosenfeld, A Cure for Gravity.>

n.  the buzzing of a fly.

<The hoofbeats of the mule made a sound as drowsy as a fly’s bzzz on a summer afternoon.  —Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms.>

n.  the buzzing of a mosquito.

<You begin to drift off ... you are falling asleep ... And suddenly—suddenly you hear a tiny noise!  Mosquitos!  (Leaps to his feet)  Mosquitos!  Goddam mosquitos!  Damn damn damn damn damn!  Mosquitos!  (Shakes his fist heavenward)  The ninth plague of Egypt!  They bzzz and bzzz, and it is such a sorry sound, such a sad, depressing sound, you almost feel sorry for them, but since you are the poor sonofabitch they are biting, you begin to itch.  —Anton Chekhov, A Reluctant Tragic Hero.>

n.  the noise of electric hair clippers.

<I’d hear that first bzzz and nearly jump out of my skin.  By the time I was ten, we had negotiated our way to scissor cuts.  —Linda Howard, After the Night.>

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