Jazzname

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  A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.

  • Jasper's teeth were set; he didn't move. "Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me."
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  A diminutive of the male given name James.

  • His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz.
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  A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.

  • "He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did.

jazznoun/d͡ʒæz/

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

  • You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!
  • Of later composers of Jewish musical plays we mention Joseph Rumshinksy (born in Wilna in 1879), who gained popularity in New York. His music is based upon folk motives and influenced by "Jazz" rhythms and melodic curves
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  Energy, excitement, excitability.

  • “You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”
  • He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.
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  The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).

  • and all that jazz
  • What is all this jazz lying around?
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  Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

  • That show was the jazz!
  • This risotto is simply the jazz.
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  Nonsense.

  • Stop talking jazz.
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  slangSemen, jizz.

  • Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat.
  • […] making Glenn feel as though he could never stop shooting his jazz wildly up inside the man's brawny body!
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  A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

jazzverb/d͡ʒæz/

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  slangTo destroy; to ruin.

  • You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
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  To play (jazz music).

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  To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

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  To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.

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  slangTo complicate.

  • Don’t jazz it too much!
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  datedslangTo have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

  • ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
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  slangTo move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.

  • I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush!
  • "In the old days, heaps of unmarried women were companions, and let me tell you, my dear girl, they had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her. Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after. That's what we fought the war for--and that's what we've come back to!" "George, do keep to the point. Miss Dorland doesn't jazz--"
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  slangTo distract or pester.

  • Stop jazzing me!