jazzy

adjectiveattested in dialogue

//ˈd͡ʒæzi//

In the style of jazz.

adjective

1
In the style of jazz.
2
Flashy or showy.
3
Lacking focus; jittery or jangly.
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.
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."
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.

Etymology

Etymology tree English jazz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English jazzy From jazz + -y.

Forms

comparative: jazzier
superlative: jazziest

Jay · An English surname transferred from the nickname from Old…jazz · A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and…Jazz · A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.

jazzy · In the style of jazz.

JE · A hypothetical intermediate stage in the development of the…jealous · Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one…jealousy · A state of being jealous; a jealous attitude.

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