Dictionary

jazzy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒæzi/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English jazz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English jazzy From jazz + -y.

Meanings

1. In the style of jazz.
2. Flashy or showy.
3. Lacking focus; jittery or jangly.
   • The letters seemed to go all jazzy on her and then they kept shifting, changing direction and making new patterns that she couldn't recognize. 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 109:
   • Your mother-of-pearl teeth, hard thighs, heaving ribcage — The smooth back of your adolescent neck, Your hot testicles swimming with future generations, And that rhinoceros horn there that makes you shiver all jazzy — You are where I get my fantasies, nigra. 1996, Daniel J. Wideman, Rohan B. Preston, Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, page 189:
   • John was waiting in the health club's juice bar, wearing a gray pinstriped Oxford suit and a blue Hermes tie. "You look all jazzy," Tyler said as he approached his partner. "I got you a cup of coffee." 2005, Peter Thomas, The Den of the Assassin, →ISBN, page 247:

Forms

Deriveds

jazzily · jazziness · unjazzy · snazzy

Synonyms

jangling (lacking focus) · gaudy (gaudy) · jazzlike (in the style of jazz) · jittery (lacking focus) · showy · flashy (flashy or showy)

Translations (11)

de auffällig (flashy or showy) · es llamativo (flashy or showy) · fi jatsahtava (in the style of jazz) · es ostentoso (flashy or showy) · pl ekscentryczny (flashy or showy) · pt claro (flashy or showy) · fi sähäkkä (flashy or showy) · de protzig (flashy or showy) · pl krzykliwy (flashy or showy) · pl jazzowy (in the style of jazz) · de grell (flashy or showy)