jazz
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A jazz band, The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra, in 1921.
See also: Jazz
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz (usually uncountable, plural jazzes)
- (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
- 1927, Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, The Jazz Singer, spoken by Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson):
- You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!
- 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 30:
- You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!
- 1995, Mike Reiss, Al Jean, “'Round Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 22, spoken by Bill Cosby:
- You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudding Pop—no, actually, it's more like Kodak film—no, actually, jazz is like the New Coke: it'll be around forever, heh heh.
- (figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.
- 1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, published 1979, →ISBN:
- “You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”
- 1983, Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, “Mexican Slayride”, in The A-Team, season 1, episode 1, spoken by B. A. Baracus (Mr. T):
- He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.
- The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
- Synonyms: stuff; see also Thesaurus:junk, Thesaurus:thingy
- and all that jazz
- What is all this jazz lying around?
- I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
- 1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard):
- Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.
- (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- That show was the jazz!
- This risotto is simply the jazz.
- Nonsense.
- Synonyms: rubbish, wass; see also Thesaurus:nonsense
- Stop talking jazz.
- (slang) Semen, jizz.
- 1968, Len Harrington, In drag, page 7:
- Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat.
- 1974, Peter Pepper, Meatslinger, page 141:
- […] making Glenn feel as though he could never stop shooting his jazz wildly up inside the man's brawny body!
- 2018, Bert Shrader, A Gay Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum:
- As he clung to the legs of his captor, he splayed his own out to the side, baring his groin and genitals to the eyes of all just as his jazz began to spurt out onto the stage.
- A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
Derived terms
- acid jazz
- Afro-Cuban jazz
- all that jazz
- bluegrass-jazz
- bluegrass jazz
- cool jazz
- electrojazz
- free jazz
- good enough for jazz
- gypsy jazz
- hot jazz
- jazz band
- jazzbo
- jazz bow
- jazz box
- jazz cabbage
- jazz cigarette
- jazzcore
- jazz dance
- jazzdom
- jazz dot
- jazzen
- jazzer
- jazzerati
- jazzercise
- jazzetry
- jazzfest
- jazz funeral
- jazz-funk
- jazz fusion
- jazz garter
- jazz hands
- jazzhead
- jazz-hop
- jazzical
- jazzification
- jazzify
- jazzish
- jazzist
- jazzistic
- jazz journalism
- jazzless
- jazz-like
- jazz mag
- jazz-mugham
- jazz mugham
- jazznik
- jazzophile
- jazzophone
- jazz pants
- jazzperson
- jazz poet
- jazz poetry
- jazz rap
- jazz-rock
- jazz square
- jazzstep
- jazzster
- jazz up
- jazzwoman
- jazzy
- modal jazz
- nonjazz
- nu jazz
- nu-jazz
- outjazz
- progressive jazz
- punk jazz
- punk-jazz
- smooth jazz
- traditional jazz
- trad jazz
Descendants
- → Japanese: ジャズ (jazu)
Translations
musical art form
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the (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s)
of excellent quality, the genuine article
nonsense
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Translations to be checked
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Verb
jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)
- (slang) To destroy; to ruin.
- You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
- To play (jazz music).
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (slang) To complicate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Don’t jazz it too much!
- (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 59:
- ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […] . ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
- (intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
- 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 119:
- ‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’
- (slang, transitive) To distract or pester.
- Stop jazzing me!
- (slang) To ejaculate.
- 1982, Arthur Winfield Knight, Kit Knight, Beat angels, page 7:
- Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme.
- 1986, Winston Leyland, Hard, page 84:
- The thrill of the rimming soon made this guy beg for me to stop before he jazzed his nuts.
- 1988, First Hand - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 47:
- I reached around and began jacking off Marshall's prick as I was jazzing his ass.
Synonyms
- (to destroy): annihilate, ravage; see also Thesaurus:destroy
- (to play jazz music): cook, jam; see also Thesaurus:play music
- (to enliven): invigorate, vitalise; see also Thesaurus:enliven
- (to complicate): complexify, confuscate; see also Thesaurus:complicate
- (to prostitute oneself): sell one's body, turn tricks; see also Thesaurus:prostitute oneself
- (to pester): bother, bug; see also Thesaurus:annoy
Translations
to play jazz music
References
- ^ The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2014, →ISBN says that most authorities derive it from jasm, a variant of jism. Partridge also says it was first recorded in reference to music in a 1917 Chicago Tribune advertisement for "Bert Kelly's Jaz Band", having previously been used in baseball.
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (invariable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jazz” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “jazz”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “jazz” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Czech
Etymology
Noun
jazz m inan
Declension
Further reading
- jazz in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- jazz in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz
- jazz (style of music)
Declension
| Inflection of jazz (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | jazz | jazzit | ||
| genitive | jazzin | jazzien | ||
| partitive | jazzia | jazzeja | ||
| illative | jazziin | jazzeihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | jazz | jazzit | ||
| accusative | nom. | jazz | jazzit | |
| gen. | jazzin | |||
| genitive | jazzin | jazzien | ||
| partitive | jazzia | jazzeja | ||
| inessive | jazzissa | jazzeissa | ||
| elative | jazzista | jazzeista | ||
| illative | jazziin | jazzeihin | ||
| adessive | jazzilla | jazzeilla | ||
| ablative | jazzilta | jazzeilta | ||
| allative | jazzille | jazzeille | ||
| essive | jazzina | jazzeina | ||
| translative | jazziksi | jazzeiksi | ||
| abessive | jazzitta | jazzeitta | ||
| instructive | — | jazzein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “jazz”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz. The compound jazband is attested in a 1918 copy of Le Matin.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
- (music) jazz (music style)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jazz”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
Adjective
jazz (invariable)
- (relational) jazz
- Synonym: jazzistico
Derived terms
References
- ^ jazz in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- jazz in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m inan
- jazz
- (slang) marijuana
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marihuana
- 2011, Firma, (lyrics and music), “JaraMy” (track 20), in Nasza broń to nasza pasja, performed by Firma:
- Śmiech, relaks i spokój w każdym machu / rozpoznam kozaka po wyglądzie i zapachu / śpię po tym jak dziecko i śmieje się do łez / mniej szkodliwe to niż wóda, zalegalizujcie jazz!
- Laughter, relaxation, and peace with every toke / I can tell a badass by the way he looks / it makes me sleep like a baby and I laugh til I cry / it's less harmful than vodka, legalize hash!
Declension
Declension of jazz
Derived terms
adjective
nouns
Further reading
- jazz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- jazz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:jazz.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz or French jazz.
Noun
jazz n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of jazz (singular only)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -as
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
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.
Derived terms
- jazzista m or f by sense
Further reading
- “jazz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
jazz c
Declension
| Declension of jazz | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | jazz | jazzen | — | — |
| Genitive | jazzs | jazzens | — | — |
Derived terms
- jazztobak (“cannabis”)