jo-jeezly

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English

Etymology

Compare jeezly (general intensifier).

Adjective

jo-jeezly (not comparable)

  1. (US, Maine, of a person) Stubborn, ornery, cantankerous.
    • 1991, James E. Myers, editor, A Treasury of Hunting and Fishing Humor, page 188:
      Longer’n a hard winter: Endless, as, “That jo-jeezly game warden lectured me longer’n a hard winter.”
  • 2009, Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: Murder Never Takes a Holiday, page 315:
    Neck, shoulders, hands, back. In lots of pain. Maybe that’s why he’s so jo-jeezly all the time.
  • (US, Maine) Unpleasant, bad.
    • 1995, Donald Bain, Martinis and Mayhem: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery, page 6:
      Everywhere I went I heard complaints: “Godfrey mighty! Ain’t this heat a killer? Haven’t seen anything so jo-jeezly since eighty-seven!”
    • 1999 April 1, Gus Andrews, “I Don’t Take Shit from Anyone”, in The Omen Archives, page 16:
      Newyork City sucks it is the dirtiest, ugliest, yuckiest jo-jeezly city in the yoonerverse.
    • 2020, Timothy A. Cotton, The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop, page 124:
      I have found myself saying “thank you” to them; typically they say nothing back, but at times they say “You’re welcome.”
      What kind of Joe-Jeezly response is that? It’s supposed to be the other way around.
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