snazzy
English
Etymology
Unknown but perhaps a blend of snappy + jazzy, or from Irish snas (“polish; good appearance”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
snazzy (comparative snazzier, superlative snazziest)
- (informal) Elegant in manner of dress; stylish, modern or appealing in appearance; flashy.
- 2000, Alev Aktar, "TAILOR MADE GOES: Fashion week closes with Calvin, Donna and Vera," New York Daily News, 23 Sep. (retrieved 8 Jan. 2009):
- One particularly snazzy outfit consisted of vertically striped pants paired with a horizontally striped and sequined top.
- a snazzy dresser
- 2000, Alev Aktar, "TAILOR MADE GOES: Fashion week closes with Calvin, Donna and Vera," New York Daily News, 23 Sep. (retrieved 8 Jan. 2009):
- (informal) Excellent; clever, ingenious, or adept in behavior, operation, or execution.
- Synonyms: (informal) cool, (informal) nifty, smart
- Antonyms: (coarse slang) crappy, duff, (informal, especially US) lame, (informal) naff, (informal) rubbishy
- 1938 April 17, Jane Murdock, “Friday Afternoon Dances”, in Washington Post, page PY8:
- Those Friday afternoon dances in the gym are really snazzy.
- 2009 January 8, Suzanne Choney, “Palm looks to regain place in smartphone race”, in msnbc.com[1], archived from the original on 2009-01-21:
- Of those migrating to the iPhone from other devices, a good number of them are former Treo users who found Apple's device to be a souped-up, snazzier and even easier-to-use version of the Treo.
Related terms
Terms which are etymologically related to "snazzy"
Translations
elegantly dressed, stylish, flashy
excellent, clever, ingenious, adept
Further reading
- “snazzy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “snazzy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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