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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
Noun
jazz (uncountable)
- (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.
- Energy, excitement, excitability.
- The substance or makeup of a thing.
- What jazz were you referring to earlier?
- What is all this jazz lying around?
- Synonyms: stuff; see also Thesaurus:junk
- Unspecified thing(s).
- I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
- Synonym: stuff
- (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- That show was the jazz!
- This risotto is simply the jazz.
- Nonsense.
- Stop talking jazz.
- Synonyms: rubbish, wass; see also Thesaurus:nonsense
- Semen, jizz.
- 1968, Len Harrington, In drag, page 7:
- Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat.
- 1974, Peter Pepper, Meatslinger, page 141:
- […] making Glenn feel as though he could never stop shooting his jazz wildly up inside the man's brawny body!
- 2018, Bert Shrader, A Gay Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum:
- As he clung to the legs of his captor, he splayed his own out to the side, baring his groin and genitals to the eyes of all just as his jazz began to spurt out onto the stage.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)
- To destroy.
- You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
- To play (jazz music).
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
- To complicate.
- Don’t jazz it too much!
- (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 59:
- ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered [...]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
- (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, published 1995, page 119:
- ‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’
- To distract or pester.
- Stop jazzing me!
- To ejaculate.
- 1982, Arthur Winfield Knight, Kit Knight, Beat angels, page 7:
- Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme.
- 1986, Winston Leyland, Hard, page 84:
- The thrill of the rimming soon made this guy beg for me to stop before he jazzed his nuts.
- 1988, First Hand - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 47:
- I reached around and began jacking off Marshall's prick as I was jazzing his ass.
Synonyms
- (to destroy): annihilate, ravage; see also Thesaurus:destroy
- (to play jazz music): cook, jam; see also Thesaurus:play music
- (to enliven): invigorate, vitalise; see also Thesaurus:enliven
- (to complicate): complexify, confuscate; see also Thesaurus:complicate
- (to prostitute oneself): sell one's body, turn tricks; see also Thesaurus:prostitute oneself
- (to pester): bother, bug; see also Thesaurus:annoy
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References
- ^ 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
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (invariable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jazz” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “jazz”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “jazz” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Czech
Etymology
Noun
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Declension
Danish
Etymology
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz
- jazz (style of music)
Declension
Inflection of jazz (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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 | |
abessive | jazzitta | jazzeitta | |
instructive | — | jazzein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz. The compound jazband is attested in a 1918 copy of Le Matin.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
- (music) jazz (music style)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jazz”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
Adjective
jazz (invariable)
- (relational) jazz
- Synonym: jazzistico
Derived terms
References
- ^ jazz in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- jazz in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m inan
- (music) jazz
- (slang) marijuana
- 2011, Firma, (lyrics and music), “JaraMy”, in Nasza broń to nasza pasja, performed by Firma, track 20:
- Śmiech, relaks i spokój w każdym machu / rozpoznam kozaka po wyglądzie i zapachu / śpię po tym jak dziecko i śmieje się do łez / mniej szkodliwe to niż wóda, zalegalizujcie jazz!
- Laughter, relaxation, and peace with every toke / I can tell a badass by the way he looks / it makes me sleep like a baby and I laugh til I cry / it's less harmful than vodka, legalize hash!
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marihuana
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- jazz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- jazz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
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Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:jazz.
Romanian
Etymology
From English jazz or French jazz.
Noun
jazz n (uncountable)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
Derived terms
- jazzista m or f
Further reading
- “jazz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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