bzzzz bzzz bzzzz.

n.  the sound of sawing wood.

<I explained to my old lady how most bassists who use the bow sound as though they were sawing wood—bzzzz, bzzz, bzzzz.  —Charles Mingus, quoted in Mingus: A Critical Biography by Brian Priestley.>

bzzzzt.

n.  the noise of a doorbell or buzzer; see also bzzzt-bzzzt, BZZZZ.

<You’re right in the middle of things, when bzzzzt, the doorbell.  —Nicholson Baker, Vox.>

bzzzzzz.

(also bzzzzzzz, bzzz, bzz.)  n.  the buzzing of a bee; see also Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz.

<Bzzzzzz.  Bzzzzzz.  The noise was driving me crazy.  It had begun earlier in the morning in my office, and at first I thought I was having a stroke or that I was finally hearing the voices I had been waiting so long for.  ... Bzzzzzzz.  Bzzz.  Bzz.  Investigating, I followed the sound and came to the window, where the noise was loudest.  It was coming from behind the curtains, and when I lifted them I saw the culprit  A big, black bee, trying to get back outside.  —Laurie Notaro, Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood.>

n.  the “faint note and flat, buzzy trill” of the band-Tailed Seedeater bird, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Columbia by Steven L. Hilty.

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