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单词 jazzy
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jazzyadj.

Brit. /ˈdʒazi/, U.S. /ˈdʒæzi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: jazz n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < jazz n. + -y suffix1.
Originally U.S.
1.
a. Relating to or resembling jazz music; having the characteristics of jazz.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective]
jazzy1915
1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 ‘Blue’ Marion sat down and jazzed the jazziest streak of jazz ever.
1917 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 20 Feb. 3/3 The ‘jazzy’ tunes are most popular for trotting the dances.
1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 466/2 To sing some jazzy stuff called ‘Alexander's Rag Time Band’.
1967 Melody Maker 27 May 10/3 The material he works over on eleven tracks isn't the jazziest ever.
1994 Pop. Music 13 202 The jazzy rhythms surfaced in his own compositions.
2005 T. Brookes Guitar 236 The guitar section had three players... Willis was more bluesy, White and Messina more jazzy, and the three combined remarkably well.
b. In a negative sense: outmoded; hackneyed, ‘corny’; phoney. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective]
fakenOE
fraudulent1412
fraudfulc1475
impostorous?1549
imposterous1562
cavillinga1576
impostural1588
cogged1589
defraudfulc1592
imposturious?a1600
imposturizing1603
imposturous1608
impostured1619
circumventive1630
impostrate1632
imposterious1633
impostrous1635
charlatanical1663
quackish1670
charlatan1671
stellionated1672
shammisha1734
shim-sham1797
humbug1811
charlatanic1843
Peter Funk1845
charlatanish1846
jazzy1934
run-out1938
jivey1972
1934 Melody Maker 19 May 9/3 The jazzy, double-stopping style is, to my mind, the last word in corniness.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 46/2 Jazzy, outmoded, showy, ostentatious style of playing.
1944 Metronome Apr. 22 Most musicians use the adjective ‘jazzy’ to denote ‘corny’.
1957 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 10 Feb. 11 Poor ole-fashioned jazz is almost a dirty word with the kids. So Jazzy means phoney or false.
2. Lively, exciting, spirited; bright, vivid, gaudy; showy, flashy, ostentatious.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > garishly coloured
speciousa1513
'skyring1724
noisy1725
rory-torya1794
flary1841
roary1866
jazzy1917
the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > brightly
paintedc1400
prismatic1677
prismed1764
prismic1790
prismal1850
jazzy1917
psychedelic1965
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > lively, vivacious, or animated
jollyc1325
lightsomea1382
kedgec1440
fledge?1461
crank1499
frisky?a1500
sprightya1522
frisk1528
sprightful1550
quick-spirited1552
cranking1567
lively1567
quick-sprighted1579
aleger1590
bright-eyed1590
firking1594
sprightly1594
spirituous1601
great-stomached1607
spirity1615
spiritous1628
lifesomec1635
vivacious1645
rattlingc1650
quick-set1653
airy1654
animated1660
sparklinga1704
bob1721
vivace1721
animate1801
high-lifed1859
sassy1859
chippy1865
sparky1883
high-keyed1893
high life1903
peppy1914
pepful1915
jazzy1917
upbeat1947
zappy1969
sparkly1979
the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [adjective]
jollyc1325
kedgec1440
fledge?1461
frisky?a1500
sprightya1522
frisk1528
sprightful1550
quick-spirited1552
lively1567
quick-sprighted1579
alive-like1582
aleger1590
firking1594
sprightly1594
sportive1595
mettled1599
alives-like1601
spirited1601
spirituous1601
mettle1606
great-stomached1607
free-spirited1613
spirity1615
spiritous1628
vivacious1645
rattlingc1650
sportful1650
airy1654
animated1660
racy1671
mettlesome1673
sparklinga1704
raffing?1719
bob1721
vivace1721
alive1748
lifey1793
spunky1831
gilpie1835
bubbling1860
chippy1865
bubblesome1879
colourful1882
sparky1883
bubbly1912
jazzy1917
spritzy1973
sparkly1979
kicking1983
1917 Chicago Tribune 17 Jan. 3 (caption) The announcement was made that the oldest of the old time dances would take precedence over jazzy one steps and fox trots.
1919 N.Y. Times 1 June (Mag.) 9/1 Side by side with the ‘classy, girly, jazzy show’, against which pulpit orators fulminated, were Maeterlinck's ‘Betrothal’ and Barrie's ‘Dear Brutus’—plays that probe ideas of character and fate with a broadly human sympathy and a philosophic insight.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. iii. 238 I should like to change my bedroom curtains to blue... The present curtains really are too jazzy.
1928 ‘J. Sutherland’ Knot xv. 204 I may be frivolous and modern and jazzy and all the things you clever people hate.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Oct. 556/3 The jazzy ebullience of the United States seems curiously out of date.
1963 N. Kantrowitz & J. Kantrowitz in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 351 Jazzy motherfucker..describes someone fluent, glib, animated.
1971 Homes & Gardens Aug. 32 Jazzy colours are confined to the bathrooms and kitchen, where they make a vibrant contrast to the other rooms.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Apr. b8/2 The jazzy camera tricks and high-fiving camaraderie the show employs..don't really pep things up.

Derivatives

ˈjazzily adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adverb] > garish
shoutingly1827
jazzily1917
the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adverb] > brightly
jazzily1917
psychedelically1966
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adverb]
jazzily1917
in there1944
funkily1965
1917 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader 20 Oct. 2/1 A high school jazz band..made its first appearance last evening, when it led the football gladiators up and down Barstow street to the strains of..‘Hot Time’, very jazzily strained.
1921 J. C. Lincoln Galusha the Magnificent xv. 253 They danced jazzily in the hotel parlor and on the porches.
1968 D. E. Allen Brit. Tastes v. 126 These jazzily unnerving designs and patterns.
1993 N.Y. Times 24 Oct. ii. 30/5 We all got in the habit of playing the fugue a little bit too jazzily.
ˈjazziness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > garishness
blare1880
jazziness1916
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > qualities of music generally
formality1531
humoura1568
languor1751
morbidezza1833
pop1862
go1882
monophony1890
jazziness1916
blueness1929
linearity1947
funkiness1957
spikiness1962
1916 Daily Illini (Univ. Illinois) 20 Oct. 6/1 These two boys are certainly masters of instrumental ragtime, the one playing a rag piano and the other a jaz [sic] violin of rampant jazziness and ragginess.
1951 Archit. Rev. 109 220/2 The freedom of handling, the faith in elementary cubic forms, the occasional jazziness of detail.
2001 Big Issue 30 July 29/4 Despite its carefully rendered homages to slow-burning torch songs and beatnik jazziness, Destiny sounds resolutely like it was recorded in 2001.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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