Definition of "buzzy"
buzzy
adjective
comparative buzzier, superlative buzziest
(informal) Being the subject of cultural buzz.
Quotations
One afternoon in June, I was out with a stranger at my local park. The algorithms recommended we meet. He told me he had been reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, a buzzy bestseller by Jenny Odell.
2021 January 22, Lilah Raptopoulos, “My tug-of-war with algorithms”, in Financial Times
These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.
2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian
For media workers, especially those at the start of their careers, it quite literally pays to be visible and visibly liked on Twitter, and posting about your dog alongside analyses of the supply chain, or perhaps a buzzy TV show, is a reliable way to achieve likability, whether you’re conscious of it or not.
2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair
(informal) Using a large number of buzzwords.
Quotations
The author is using some buzzy language—derived from prevailing theories in his discipline—that, when replicated throughout the manuscript, prompted a reader to worry that the work, while sensitive and brilliant, was jargon-y and dense.
2021, Pamela Haag, Revise: The Scholar-Writer’s Essential Guide to Tweaking, Editing, and Perfecting Your Manuscript