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jo-jeezly en · ADJ

Etymology

Compare jeezly (general intensifier).

Meanings

  1. (Maine, US, not-comparable, of a person) Stubborn, ornery, cantankerous.
    • Longer’n a hard winter: Endless, as, “That jo-jeezly game warden lectured me longer’n a hard winter.” 1991, James E. Myers, editor, A Treasury of Hunting and Fishing Humor, page 188:
    • Neck, shoulders, hands, back. In lots of pain. Maybe that’s why he’s so jo-jeezly all the time. 2009, Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: Murder Never Takes a Holiday, page 315:
    • jo-jeezly Used to describe someone or something stubborn, ornery. “He’s so jo-jeezly he’ll never admit he did it wrong.” [2000, Robert Hendricksen, editor, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Yankee Talk, page 252:
  2. (Maine, US, not-comparable) Unpleasant, bad.
    • Newyork City sucks it is the dirtiest, ugliest, yuckiest jo-jeezly city in the yoonerverse. 1999 April 1, Gus Andrews, “I Don’t Take Shit from Anyone”, in The Omen Archives, page 16:
    • Everywhere I went I heard complaints: “Godfrey mighty! Ain’t this heat a killer? Haven’t seen anything so jo-jeezly since eighty-seven!” 1995, Donald Bain, Martinis and Mayhem: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery, page 6:
    • I have found myself saying “thank you” to them; typically they say nothing back, but at times they say “You’re welcome.” What kind of Joe-Jeezly response is that? It’s supposed to be the other way around. 2020, Timothy A. Cotton, The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop, page 124: