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Jazz

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.

    Jasper's teeth were set; he didn't move. "Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me."

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the male given name James.

    His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz.

  3. 3

    A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.

    "He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did.

Etymology

A fanciful spelling variant of Jaz and Jas.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).