pizzazz
/pɪˈzaz
/(also pizazz, pazazz, or pzazz)
noun [mass noun] informal
An attractive combination of vitality and glamour: a summer collection with pizzazz...
- Punters are encouraged to dress up to add glamour and pizzazz to a night which will transport the willing to disco dance heaven.
- It's typical of the Belfast approach to life, this earthing of Ireland's celebrities and stars, this demystification of the glamour and pizzazz of showbusiness.
- In dark brown, these are traditionally styled and lack the punch panache and pizzazz hip kids require in a shoe.
Origin
Said to have been invented by Diana Vreeland, fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar in the 1930s.
Rhymes
- intelligent
- intelligent building
- intelligent contraband
- intelligent design
- intelligential
- intelligently
- intelligentsia
- intelligibility
- intelligible
- intelligibleness
- intelligibly
- intelligise
- intelligize
- Intelsat
- intemperance
- intemperate
- intemperately
- intemperateness
- intend
- intendancy
- intendant
- intended
- intendedly
- intender
- intending