jazzy

jazz +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæzi/

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• Rhymes: -æzi

jazzy (comparative jazzier, superlative jazziest)

1. In the style of jazz.
2. Flashy or showy.
3. Lacking focus; jittery or jangly.
   • 1996, Daniel J. Wideman, Rohan B. Preston, Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, page 189:

     Your mother-of-pearl teeth, hard thighs, heaving ribcage — The smooth back of your adolescent neck, Your hot testicles swimming with future generations, And that rhinoceros horn there that makes you shiver all jazzy — You are where I get my fantasies, nigra.

   • 2005, Peter Thomas, The Den of the Assassin, →ISBN, page 247:

     John was waiting in the health club's juice bar, wearing a gray pinstriped Oxford suit and a blue Hermes tie. "You look all jazzy," Tyler said as he approached his partner. "I got you a cup of coffee."

   • 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 109:

     The letters seemed to go all jazzy on her and then they kept shifting, changing direction and making new patterns that she couldn't recognize.

• (in the style of jazz):: jazzlike
• (flashy or showy):: flashy, showy, (gaudy): Thesaurus:gaudy
• (lacking focus):: jittery, jangling

Borrowed from English jazzy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛ.zi/

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• Hyphenation: jaz‧zy

jazzy (comparative jazzyer, superlative jazzyest)

1. jazzy (in the style of jazz)

Unadapted borrowing from English jazzy.

• Rhymes: -asi

jazzy (invariable)

1. (rare) jazzy
   • 2015, Luis Ángel Rico Tejedor, Turbo Manual de Guitarra Eléctrica v2.0, Ociosu, page 150:

     Para dar un sonido más “jazzy” a la progresión el acorde A7 lo tocaremos con la quinta aumentada (A7♯5), y en lugar de acordes de séptima dominante, usaremos acordes de novena.

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   • 2012 May 15, Jorge Letelier, “Andrea Tessa lanza disco con arreglos swing y una big band de 50 músicos”, in La Tercera‎:

     Y el título, más que el género, se refiere a un estado de ánimo: «Lo que me gusta del título es que jazzy quiere decir chispeante. Eso se ajusta al disco», afirma la ex conductora de TV.

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   • 2017 September 5, Diego A. Manrique, “Muere Walter Becker, mitad del enigmático proyecto Steely Dan”, in El País‎:

     Gracias a su estudio particular, Becker volvió discretamente a la actividad, con la producción de artistas de querencia jazzy como Michael Franks o Ricki Lee Jones.

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.