jazz

• jaz, jas, jass, jasz (all dated, used from about 1912 to about 1918)

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]

• enPR: jăz, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæz/
• Rhymes: -æz

A jazz band, The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra, in 1921.

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.

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!

Borrowed from English jazz.

jazz m (plural jazz)

1. jazz

Borrowed from English jazz.

jazz m

1. jazz

Borrowed from English jazz.

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jazz m (uncountable)

1. jazz

• jazzzanger
• jazzzangeres

Borrowed from English jazz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑts/, [ˈjɑt̪s̠]

jazz

1. jazz (style of music)

• jatsi

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

• IPA^(key): /dʒɑz/

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jazz m (uncountable)

1. (music) jazz (music style)

• jazz
• jazzifier
• jazzman

• “jazz” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English jazz.

jazz m (invariable)

1. (music) jazz

• jazzista
• jazzistico

• jass

Borrowed from English jazz.

jazz m (definite singular jazzen)

1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

• jass

Borrowed from English jazz.

jazz m (definite singular jazzen)

1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

Borrowed from English jazz.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʐɛs/

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jazz m inan

1. jazz (music)

• dżez

• jazzowy
• jazzband
• jazzman

Borrowed from English jazz.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛs/

jazz m (uncountable)

1. (music) jazz (music genre)

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

Borrowed from English jazz.

• IPA^(key): /ɟ͡ʝas/

jazz m (uncountable)

1. jazz

• jazzista m or f