Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To make fuzzy. · To become fuzzy. · To make drunk. · To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. · Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image. · The random data used in fuzz testing. · A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.”
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