jazzy

English

Etymology

jazz +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæzi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æzi

Adjective

jazzy (comparative jazzier, superlative jazziest)

1. In the style of jazz.
2. Flashy or showy.
3. 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.

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

• Finnish: jatsahtava

flashy or showy

• Finnish: sähäkkä (fi)
• German: grell (de), protzig (de), auffällig (de)
• Portuguese: claro (pt) m
• Spanish: llamativo (es), ostentoso (es)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazzy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛ.zi/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: jaz‧zy

Adjective

jazzy (comparative jazzyer, superlative jazzyest)

1. 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): /ˈʝasi/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.si]

• 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)

1. (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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2012 May 15, Jorge Letelier, “Andrea Tessa lanza disco con arreglos swing y una big band de 50 músicos”, in La Tercera‎^[1]:

     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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2017 September 5, Diego A. Manrique, “Muere Walter Becker, mitad del enigmático proyecto Steely Dan”, in El País‎^[2]:

     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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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