wuzzle
English
Etymology 1
Arbitrary coinage, said to have been first used by WE Schevill of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Noun
wuzzle (plural wuzzles)
- A group social-sexual interaction among certain species of dolphin.
- 1993, Kenneth Stafford Norris, Dolphin Days, page 223:
- Wuzzles could be seen as far away as any behavior we observed, and I'm sure the dolphins can also detect them a long way off.
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Verb
wuzzle (third-person singular simple present wuzzles, present participle wuzzling, simple past and past participle wuzzled)
- (intransitive) To take part in such an interaction.
Verb
wuzzle (third-person singular simple present wuzzles, present participle wuzzling, simple past and past participle wuzzled)
- (transitive, US, dialectal, dated) To jumble or confuse.