单词 | jazzy |
释义 | jazzyadj. 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). < adj.1915 |
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