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buzzy


noun 1. a grass seed that sticks or clings to passers-by.
2. a low-growing herb which grows in eastern Australia; bidgee widgee. Also, buzzie.

Contributor's comments: The word 'buzzy' in Tasmania actually refers to any grass seed that is capable of getting lodged in your socks. So it is a bit wider a definition really.

Contributor's comments: A buzzy to me is a seed which sticks to your clothes when walking in the bush or rough ground.

Contributor's comments: One of the prickles on a sticky mickey plant: "I've got buzzies stuck all over the bottom of my jeans."

Contributor's comments: Prickly round grass seed: "I've got buzzies all over my socks from walking through the paddock."

Contributor's comments: When I was a child in Tasmania, buzzies weren't grass seeds, but the seeds of a very low growing flat plant with leaves arranged the way rose leaves are arranged. There were also buzzy beetles; tiny beetles, the colour of a castor oil bottle and brilliantly shiny. They fed on the buzzy plant. There might be twenty on one plant.