jazz

See also: Jazz

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒæz/
  • Rhymes: -æz
A jazz band, The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra, in 1921.

Noun

jazz (uncountable)

  1. (music) A 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.
  2. Energy, excitement, excitability.
  3. The substance or makeup of a thing.
    What jazz were you referring to earlier?
    What is all this jazz lying around?
  4. Unspecified thing(s).
    I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
  5. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
    That show was the jazz!
    This risotto is simply the jazz.
  6. Nonsense.
    Stop talking jazz.

Derived terms

Translations

Of excellent quality, the genuine article
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Verb

jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)

  1. To destroy.
    You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
  2. To play (jazz music).
  3. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
  4. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
  5. To complicate.
    Don’t jazz it too much!
  6. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
    • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 59:
      ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered [...]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
  7. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. [from 20th c.]
    • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 119:
      ‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’
  8. To distract/pester.
    Stop jazzing me!

Translations

References

  1. ↑ The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2014, →ISBN says that most authorities derive it from jasm, a variant of jism. Partridge also says it was first recorded in reference to music in a 1917 Chicago Tribune advertisement for "Bert Kelly's Jaz [sic] Band", having previously been used in baseball.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m (plural jazz)

  1. jazz

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m

  1. jazz

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

  1. jazz

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɑts/

Noun

jazz

  1. jazz (style of music)

Declension

Inflection of jazz (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative jazz jazzit
genitive jazzin jazzien
partitive jazzia jazzeja
illative jazziin jazzeihin
singular plural
nominative jazz jazzit
accusative nom. jazz jazzit
gen. jazzin
genitive jazzin jazzien
partitive jazzia jazzeja
inessive jazzissa jazzeissa
elative jazzista jazzeista
illative jazziin jazzeihin
adessive jazzilla jazzeilla
ablative jazzilta jazzeilta
allative jazzille jazzeille
essive jazzina jazzeina
translative jazziksi jazzeiksi
instructive — jazzein
abessive jazzitta jazzeitta
comitative — jazzeineen

Synonyms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz. The compound jazband is attested in a 1918 copy of Le Matin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒɑz/

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

  1. (music) jazz (music style)

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m (invariable)

  1. (music) jazz

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m (definite singular jazzen)

  1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m (definite singular jazzen)

  1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʐɛs/
  • audio(file)

Noun

jazz m inan

  1. jazz (music)

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛs/

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

  1. (music) jazz (music genre)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:jazz.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɟ͡ʝas/

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

  1. jazz

Derived terms

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