| 释义 |
jazzify, v.|ˈdʒæzɪfaɪ|
[f. jazz n. + -ify.]
trans. To render jazzy; = jazz v. 1 a and b. So ˌjazzifiˈcation; ˈjazzified ppl. a.
1922[see crazy flying s.v. crazy a. 6]. 1927Daily Express 9 Nov. 9 In ‘Hit the Deck’,..British bluejackets kneel down, and, with arms uplifted to heaven, jazzify a negro spiritual. 1928Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 15/1 We had already seen our musical taste jazzified, and our British standards of art and life were being jazzified by foreign films. 1958E. Borneman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 270 The mambo, of course, was part of the gradual ‘jazzification’ of Cuban folk-music that had begun with the so-called ‘rumba’. |