jazzy
English
Etymology
jazz + -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæzi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æzi
Adjective
jazzy (comparative jazzier, superlative jazziest)
- In the style of jazz.
- Flashy or showy.
- Lacking focus; jittery or jangly.
- 1996, Daniel J. Wideman & Rohan B. Preston, Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, page 189:
- 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.
- 2005, Peter Thomas, The Den of the Assassin, →ISBN, page 247:
- 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."
- 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 109:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (in the style of jazz):: jazzlike
- (flashy or showy):: flashy, showy, (gaudy): Thesaurus:gaudy
- (lacking focus):: jittery, jangling
Translations
in the style of jazz
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flashy or showy
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazzy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʒɛ.zi/
- Hyphenation: jaz‧zy
Adjective
jazzy (comparative jazzyer, superlative jazzyest)
- jazzy (in the style of jazz)
Inflection
| Inflection of jazzy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | jazzy | |||
| inflected | jazzy | |||
| comparative | jazzyer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | jazzy | jazzyer | het jazzyest het jazzyeste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | jazzy | jazzyere | jazzyeste |
| n. sing. | jazzy | jazzyer | jazzyeste | |
| plural | jazzy | jazzyere | jazzyeste | |
| definite | jazzy | jazzyere | jazzyeste | |
| partitive | jazzyers | — | ||
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazzy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝasi/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.si]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃasi/ [ˈʃa.si]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒasi/ [ˈʒa.si]
- Rhymes: -asi
Adjective
jazzy (invariable)
- (rare) jazzy
- 2015, Luis Ángel Rico Tejedor, Turbo Manual de Guitarra Eléctrica v2.0, Ociosu, page 150:
- Para dar un sonido más “jazzy” a la progresión el acorde A7 lo tocaremos con la quinta aumentada (A7♯5), y en lugar de acordes de séptima dominante, usaremos acordes de novena.
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- 2012 May 15, Jorge Letelier, “Andrea Tessa lanza disco con arreglos swing y una big band de 50 músicos”, in La Tercera:
- Y el título, más que el género, se refiere a un estado de ánimo: «Lo que me gusta del título es que jazzy quiere decir chispeante. Eso se ajusta al disco», afirma la ex conductora de TV.
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- 2017 September 5, Diego A. Manrique, “Muere Walter Becker, mitad del enigmático proyecto Steely Dan”, in El País:
- Gracias a su estudio particular, Becker volvió discretamente a la actividad, con la producción de artistas de querencia jazzy como Michael Franks o Ricki Lee Jones.
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Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Related terms
- jazz