peach fuzz
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4.6
- noun
- /piːtʃ fʌz/
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vello de durazno
- The skin on the back of Doug's neck prickled, peach fuzz standing on end.
- peach fuzz hair
- little peach fuzz
- peach fuzz beard
I do notice like the Peach fuzz on my face looks a little bit more than what I had prior to doing this.
- I do notice like the Peach fuzz on my face looks a little bit more than what I had prior to doing this.
- But what it does is it actually removes dead skin, but also like Peach fuzz from your face, you get the smoothest feel on the skin.
Examples
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Crane could see every golden hair of the peach fuzz over his dreamgirl's creamy skin.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Not much more than peach fuzz on his cheeks, but it always pleased him to have it noticed.
Fiction book (2002) -
I do notice like the Peach fuzz on my face looks a little bit more than what I had prior to doing this.
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I have peach fuzz on my face.
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But what it does is it actually removes dead skin, but also like Peach fuzz from your face, you get the smoothest feel on the skin.
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You've got peach fuzz.
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I have peach fuzz on my face.
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There was peach fuzz on his upper lip.
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His face showed a bit of peach fuzz, the skin still soft and childlike around his full cheeks.
Synonyms
16
2.7
Fine soft hair that grows on skin or plants
How Fuzzy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from combining 'peach' (a fruit with fuzzy skin) and 'fuzz' (soft, hairlike threads): it denotes very fine, soft hair resembling the surface of a peach. This is a straightforward, image-based compositional metaphor that a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer.
Etymology
Peach fuzz comes from the very soft, tiny hairs on a peach's skin that look like light hair on a person's face. People used the image of peach and fuzz to name that light hair, so it now means 'very fine, soft hair' on skin.