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Revised 2017

zoonverb

Chiefly U.S. regional (southern and south Midland). Now rare.
  1. 1880–
    intransitive. To make a humming, buzzing, or droning sound; to move with, or as if with, such a sound; to move quickly. Also occasionally transitive: to cause to move with such a sound; to propel quickly. Cf. zoom v.1 1
    1. 1880
      ‘A-zoonin.’—I find this word used by negroes in Georgia to express the humming of bees, as ‘de bees is a-zoonin’.
      Notes & Queries 18 December 488/1
    2. 1883
      Bimeby Brer Rabbit year de skeeters come zoonin' ‘roun’, en claimin' kin wid 'im.
      J. C. Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus xxxvii. 224
    3. 1893
      A man, horse, locomotive, or almost anything that goes along swiftly, is said to zune.
      H. A. Shands, Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 69
    4. 1896
      I hear a horsefly zooning around.
      Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 16 February 29/1
    5. 1909
      Zoon, v.i. and tr., to make a humming or buzzing sound, to cause to make such a sound. ‘That rock came zoonin' by my head.’ ‘Watch me zoon this rock.’
      Dialect Notes vol. 3 391
    6. 1922
      She ‘zooned’ away contentedly, but as she went a couple of sentinels buzzed out to the hive entrance.
      Bee Keepers' Review August 8/2
    7. 1941
      Seeing his first passenger plane come zooning across the Ohio River, southward bound.
      I. S. Cobb, Exit Laughing xxviii. 348
    8. 1954
      The only boy in Tipkin that wouldn't tie a string to an old juney bug and listen to him zoon.
      J. O. Killens, Youngblood 12

zoon, v. was revised in June 2017.

zoon, v. was last modified in July 2023.