jazzy

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English

Etymology

From jazz +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazzy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʒɛ.zi/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: jaz‧zy

Adjective

jazzy (comparative jazzyer, superlative jazzyest)

  1. jazzy (in the style of jazz)

Declension

Declension 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/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃasi/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒasi/

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.
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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.
      (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.