jazzy

English edit

Etymology edit

jazz +‎ -y

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæzi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -æzi

Adjective edit

jazzy (comparative jazzier, superlative jazziest)

In the style of jazz.
Flashy or showy.
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 edit

(in the style of jazz):: jazzlike
(flashy or showy):: flashy, showy, (gaudy): Thesaurus:gaudy
(lacking focus):: jittery, jangling

Translations edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English jazzy.

Pronunciation edit

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

Adjective edit

jazzy (comparative jazzyer, superlative jazzyest)

jazzy (in the style of jazz)

Inflection edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English jazzy.

Pronunciation edit

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 edit

jazzy (invariable)

(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 edit

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 edit

jazz