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Jazz en · PROPN

Etymology

A fanciful spelling variant of Jaz and Jas.

Meanings

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
    • Jasper's teeth were set; he didn't move. "Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me." 2008, Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Little, Brown and Company, page 492:
  2. A diminutive of the male given name James.
    • His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz. 2001, Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men, Orion, page 4:
  3. A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.
    • "He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did. 2012? Madeleine Oh, At Long Last, in The Mammoth Book of Erotica: Volume 4, Constable and Robinson Ltd (2012)

Synonyms

Jamie (diminutive of James) · Jem (diminutive of James) · Jaime (diminutive of James) · Jemmy (diminutive of James)