α. 1900s– razmataz, 1900s– razmatazz, 1900s– razzmahtazz, 1900s– razzmataz, 1900s– razzmatazz.
β. 1900s– razamataz, 1900s– razamatazz, 1900s– razzamataz, 1900s– razzamatazz.
单词 | razzmatazz |
释义 | razzmatazzn.adj.α. 1900s– razmataz, 1900s– razmatazz, 1900s– razzmahtazz, 1900s– razzmataz, 1900s– razzmatazz. β. 1900s– razamataz, 1900s– razamatazz, 1900s– razzamataz, 1900s– razzamatazz. 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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