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单词 razzmatazz
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razzmatazzn.adj.

Brit. /ˈrazmətaz/, /ˌrazməˈtaz/, U.S. /ˈræzməˌtæz/
Forms:

α. 1900s– razmataz, 1900s– razmatazz, 1900s– razzmahtazz, 1900s– razzmataz, 1900s– razzmatazz.

β. 1900s– razamataz, 1900s– razamatazz, 1900s– razzamataz, 1900s– razzamatazz.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: razzle-dazzle n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an arbitrarily extended form of razz- (in razzle-dazzle n.).Apparently earlier as a nonsense word (of the ‘thingamabob’ type) in the following passage commenting on a doctor's explanation of the role of germs in causing flu (‘grip’): 1899 G. Ade in Chicago Record 14 Jan. 4/6 ‘Hully cheez,’ I says, ‘what chance has a guy got against the grip bazazas when they come at you a million in a bunch? There ain't a thing to it. No matter which way you dodge you find Mr. Grip Razmataz waitin' with a stiff left for you... There's no gettin' away from it... Say, I wish I cold give you the line o' talk that Doc passed to me about those grip umptalariums—wha' d'you call 'em?’ ‘Germs.’
colloquial (originally U.S.).
A. n.
1.
a. Meaningless or misleading talk; unnecessary fuss or commotion; hype. Also: nonsense, stuff (chiefly in all that (also this) razzmatazz). Also in to give the razzmatazz: to confuse (someone) with misleading information. Cf. jazz n. 2, razzle-dazzle n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1888 Logansport (Indiana) Chron. 18 Aug. [The Professor]..got a sure thing on a big fat position in Georgia before he made known his non-acceptance in Hoosierdom. In other words ‘Cliff’ gave the School Board the razz-ma-taz in elegant style.
1946 Bradford (Pa.) Era 28 Feb. 11/3 If I should go out and buy a new vehicle..these friends and neighbors would turn out on masse with an old familiar razzmatazz: ‘Well you musta hit it rich lately’, they would chorus.
1959 J. Wain Travelling Woman x. 148 The enormous selling bonanza that was going on about him, in its astonishing flood of genuine goodwill, even a grain here and there of genuine piety, with unscrupulous salesman's razzmatazz, heightened his sense of living in a dream.
1961 Sunday Times 26 Nov. 48/3 Barbara Murray, a girl who is entirely wasted on rats, retorts and all that razzmatazz.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 Feb. 32/1 There was no need to go through ‘all this razzmatazz’. The replacing of white centre lines with yellow ones wasn't all that difficult to comprehend.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Feb. 36/2 Harkin's populist razzmatazz might have been more appealing to Democrats when President Bush was soaring in the polls.
2003 New Yorker 17 Nov. 35 Bigger, slicker later paintings succumb to mere razzmatazz.
b. Vigour; energy, excitement; (hence) ostentatious, showy, or dazzling display; an instance of this. Cf. jazz n. 1, razzle-dazzle n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > (an) ostentatious display
pompc1330
vaunterya1492
pomping pridec1503
braga1513
flaunt-a-flaunt1576
plume1580
affecting1584
top and topgallant1593
ruffle1609
parado1621
riota1649
flutter1667
show1713
sprunk1746
to make a splash1804
show-off1811
paraffle1816
shine1819
splurge1828
gaud1831
spludge1831
poppy-show1860
razzle1885
razzmatazz1917
foofaraw1933
showbiz1970
glitz1977
1917 Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier 3 Aug. 5/3 Mlle. Katherine supplied the motive for more emotional razmataz than a regiment of Little Marys could portray.
1937 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 Jan. 9/4 This bit of razzmatazz [sc. an ice-hockey game] takes place at the local ice cube dispensary tonight.
1941 Syracuse Herald-Amer. 23 Mar. 4 d/7 I think he's lost a lot of that old razzmatazz... Four bad years with the Cardinals may have taken the fight out of him.
1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 174/3 Don't you remember anything about the Twenties but crime, booze, flappers, religious razzmatazz?
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iv. 59 The great wide streets have an air of grandeur which even the razz-ma-tazz of neon cannot wholly mar.
1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Nov. 22/3 Opening day Thursday had all the razzmatazz of a revival meeting.
1992 Gramophone Jan. 74/2 I miss the uproariousness and razzamatazz that Beethoven, working within classical forms, brings to these early works.
2. A type of early jazz music, pre-dating swing; ragtime. Hence: old-fashioned or unsophisticated jazz; (U.S. slang) anything regarded as outdated. Now rare.In quots. 19011, 19012 as the title of a piece of music in this style.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > ragtime
ragtime1896
razzmatazz1901
ricky-tick1937
honky-tonk1942
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [noun] > falling out of use > that which is obsolete
obsolete1641
obsoletism1799
razzmatazz1936
rinky-dink1956
1901 T. D. Collins (title of music for piano) Raz-a-ma-taz.
1901 W. H. Smith (title of music for piano) Raz-ma-taz.
1918 H. Atteridge & A. Jolson Raz-Ma-Taz (sheet music) 5 That's the Raz-ma-taz, that's the Raz-ma-taz!—Take a little bit of Fox trot, mixed with Jazz.
1924 in J. McCray Charleston Jazz (2007) iii. 57 You are cordially invited to attend The First Moonlight Sail..Monday Evening, June 23rd, 1924..Jazz, Razmataz & Rajaz by Saxton Wilson's Cruel Five. Fare 50 cents.
1930 San Antonio (Texas) Light 14 Mar. b1/4 Where the imps of Satan gather And create what we call jazz..Comes this monster of the air waves..Spawn of hotcha razzmatazz.
1936 Amer. Mercury 38 p. x/2 Rooty-toot,—unadulterated corn; razz-ma-tazz.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §579/2 ‘Straight Jazz.’ (Old-fashioned jazz, which reproduces the score faithfully, as distinguished from ‘swing’.)..razzmatazz.
1947 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang Suppl. §3/1 Razzmatazz..anything ‘corny’ or in poor taste.
1950 C. Coben Old Piano Roll Blues (song) And while we kiss, kiss, kiss away all our cares, The player piano's playin' razzamatazz, I wanna hear it again.
1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §233/5 Something old-fashioned,..razzmatazz.
2003 M. Dean Rock & Roll Gold Rush ii. 7/2 I watched my California uncle swing that rampaging left hand blazingly across the deep keys, rocking a raunchy rhythm that rolled all the way back to the century-turning razzmatazz of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake.
B. adj.
1. Showy, ostentatious; glamorous, stylish; dazzling. Cf. razzle-dazzle adj.The sense in quot. 1900 is uncertain but it may be ‘stylish, glamorous, sophisticated’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]
rankOE
peacockly?a1425
ruffling1531
garish1545
peacockish1551
peacock-like1576
ostentatious1590
fastuous?1591
flaring1593
flantitanting1596
ostentive1599
ostentative1601
showful1607
flourishable1614
flourishing1616
flaunting1624
ostentous1624
ostentatory1638
swasha1640
fanfaron1670
paradeful1748
ostensible1782
epideictic1790
fandangous1797
flashy1801
affiché1818
show-off1818
splashing1820
flaunty1825
splash-and-dash1830
pretentious1832
flash1836
splashy1836
pretenceful1841
swanky1842
peacocky1844
fantysheeny1847
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
pretensivea1868
duchessy1870
swagger1879
lavish1882
splurging1884
show-offy1890
razzmatazz1900
show-offish1903
whoop-de-do1904
Ritz1908
split-arse1917
swanking1918
ritzy1919
fantoosh1920
knock-me-down1922
showboating1936
showboat1939
hellzapoppin'1945
zazzy1961
glitzy1966
sploshy1966
zhuzhy1968
noncy1989
bling1999
1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 37 It would be a Big Help to the Poor and Uncultured to see what a Real Razmataz Lady was like.
1947 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 25 Oct. 65/2 Expert horsing of the old razzmatazz style by an expert horsewoman.
1958 People 4 May 8/2 She will, from next Friday when she flies to Cannes, be getting the full razza~ma-tazz, big-star build-up.
1971 Morning Star 8 Mar. 4/7 Some of the hotels and centres can be a bit razzamataz and noisy, especially at night.
1979 Guardian 1 May 30/1 In keeping with the showbiz, razzmatazz side of the election, the most glamorous transport belongs to the media.
2002 S. Stewart & N. H. Turner Road South 155 The pure excitement of being on the air was cathartic and helped me to gel with the fast-paced, razzmatazz atmosphere of Harlem.
2. Relating to or associated with early jazz or ragtime; see sense A. 2. rare.
ΚΠ
1935 Down Beat June 2/1 Much abuse has been heaped upon their heads, many adjectives used to describe them. Corny, razz mah tazz, etc.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 48/1 Razmataz band, a band which plays in an outmoded style.
1963 Beatles 9 Though some of our material is a bit out of the way for a razzamatazz chap like him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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