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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jazzy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a jazzy version of the song
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A strange band, they rode a jazzy musical offshoot which often bordered on directionless experimentalism.
▪ Drummer Kevin Christiansen grounds the band, effortlessly changing time signatures with jazzy finesse, making it sound deceptively easy.
▪ The jazzy clarinet and saxophone solos of Norbert Stachel work well in setting the New Orleans milieu early on as well.
▪ This was less jazzy, but still cool and laid-back, exercising a more minimal and subtle sound.
▪ Where he articulates the emotional arc of a rising arabesque with a jazzy staccato, she just doesn't get the point.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jazzy

jazzy \jazzy\ adj.

  1. resembling jazz[1] especially in its rhythm. [WordNet sense 1]

  2. ostentatious or strikingly styled; -- used especially of clothes. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: flashy, gaudy, showy, snazzy, sporty.

  3. marked by animation or performed with flair[2].

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jazzy

1919, from jazz (n.) + -y (2). Related: Jazzily; jazziness.

Wiktionary
jazzy

a. 1 In the style of jazz. 2 flashy or showy.

WordNet
jazzy

  1. adj. resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm)

  2. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, showy, sporty]

  3. [also: jazziest, jazzier]

Usage examples of "jazzy".

When we had three successful transfers, we would save them until Jazzy entered the ovulatory phase of her menstrual cycle.

There was, of course, the theoretical threat of all three ova implanting and Jazzy bearing triplets, but neither Derr nor I was concerned about that.

Derr had delivered the placenta, I asked Jazzy if she wanted to hold you, but she wanted no part of you.

I knew then that you were unharmed, but I had to fight to keep Jazzy off you.

Occasionally Blackie could not resist the temptation to indulge himself in a few jazzy silk ties and handkerchiefs and ascots in florid patterns and brilliant colors, but he made certain never to wear them when he was seeing Emma.

Ritzy, jazzy, noisy, dirty, uninhibited old London, greedy and gutsy and grabbing at life.

The kind hick tourists bought, with jazzy headlines like HARRY SMITH HITS HOLLYWOOD, GIRLS TAKE TO THE HILLS!

They were both the same, with gaudy red and yellow pictured flames still visible on the singed surfaces, and the words GOLDEN BOMB in jazzy letters on the one under the harrow.

Oriental carpet, opulent and jazzy, comforting yet intense, like an overtuned eye game flattened and spread out on the floor.

I took off my jazzy zipped jacket and laid it on the floor with my helmet and sat in a light armchair, where he pointed.

Willie could go nimbly from name to name in the room, improvising such couplets to a jazzy refrain.

Peter plays a very jazzy accordion and Heather has a voice that harmonizes well with mine.

Occasionally Blackie could not resist the temptation to indulge himself in a few jazzy silk ties and handkerchiefs and ascots in florid patterns and brilliant colors, but he made certain never to wear them when he was seeing Emma.

Jannie showed off and did the cakewalk to a jazzy version of "Blueberry Hill.

A jazzy three-color bar graph, the bars represented by stylized brushes, illustrated the phenomenal rise in prices brought by works of living artists.