jazzy

adj — 3 senses

jazzy

adj

/ˈd͡ʒæzi/

Etymology From jazz + -y.

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.1996, Daniel J. Wideman, Rohan B. Preston, Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, page 189:
  • 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."2005, Peter Thomas, The Den of the Assassin, →ISBN, page 247:
1 more example
  • 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.2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 109:
Synonyms
jazzlike, flashy, showy, gaudy, jittery, jangling
Derived terms
jazzily, jazziness, snazzy, unjazzy

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