Definition of "muzz"

muzz

/mʌz/

verb
third-person singular simple present muzzes, present participle muzzing, simple past and past participle muzzed
1. (slang, now rare) To study intently; to pore over.
  Quotations
  MUZZ: To be studious. ‘I was muzzing up my Virgil.’
  1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, “A Westminster Glossary”, in Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 230
2. (slang, obsolete) To hang around aimlessly; to loiter.
  Quotations
  ‘If You but knew, cried I, to whom I am going to Night! and who I shall see to Night! – you would not dare keep me muzzing here!’
  1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 105
3. (slang) To make muzzy or hazy; to confuse.