jo-jeezly

adj — 2 senses

jo-jeezly

adj

Etymology Compare jeezly (general intensifier).

1

Maine, US, Of a person Stubborn, ornery, cantankerous.

Longer’n a hard winter: Endless, as, “That jo-jeezly game warden lectured me longer’n a hard winter.”1991, James E. Myers, editor, A Treasury of Hunting and Fishing Humor, page 188:
jo-jeezly Used to describe someone or something stubborn, ornery. “He’s so jo-jeezly he’ll never admit he did it wrong.”[2000, Robert Hendricksen, editor, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Yankee Talk, page 252:

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Neck, shoulders, hands, back. In lots of pain. Maybe that’s why he’s so jo-jeezly all the time.2009, Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: Murder Never Takes a Holiday, page 315:

2

Maine, US Unpleasant, bad.

Everywhere I went I heard complaints: “Godfrey mighty! Ain’t this heat a killer? Haven’t seen anything so jo-jeezly since eighty-seven!”1995, Donald Bain, Martinis and Mayhem: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery, page 6:
Newyork City sucks it is the dirtiest, ugliest, yuckiest jo-jeezly city in the yoonerverse.1999 April 1, Gus Andrews, “I Don’t Take Shit from Anyone”, in The Omen Archives, page 16:

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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.2020, Timothy A. Cotton, The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop, page 124:

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