jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jăz
ipa: /d͡ʒæz/
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: jazzes
form: jaz
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
form: jas
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
form: jass
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
form: jasz
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
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.
Senses: examples: text: You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!
ref: 1927, Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, The Jazz Singer, spoken by Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson):
text: You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 30:
text: You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudding Pop—no, actually, it's more like Kodak film—no, actually, jazz is like the New Coke: it'll be around forever, heh heh.
ref: 1995 April 30, Mike Reiss, Al Jean, “'Round Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 22, spoken by Bill Cosby (Dan Castellaneta):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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.
examples: text: “You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”
ref: 1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1979, →ISBN:
text: He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.
ref: 1983, Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, “Mexican Slayride”, in The A-Team, season 1, episode 1, spoken by B. A. Baracus (Mr. T):
glosses: Energy, excitement, excitability.
examples: text: and all that jazz
text: What is all this jazz lying around?
text: I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
text: Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.
ref: 1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard):
synonyms: word: stuff
word: Sorted by number of Google hits
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word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
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word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
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word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
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word: dongle
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word: doober
word: doodah
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word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
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word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
examples: text: That show was the jazz!
text: This risotto is simply the jazz.
glosses: Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
raw_tags: with positive terms
examples: text: Stop talking jazz.
synonyms: word: rubbish
word: wass
word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Nonsense.
examples: text: Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat.
ref: 1968, Len Harrington, In drag, page 7:
text: […] making Glenn feel as though he could never stop shooting his jazz wildly up inside the man's brawny body!
ref: 1974, Peter Pepper, Meatslinger, page 141:
text: 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.
ref: 2018, Bert Shrader, A Gay Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum:
glosses: Semen, jizz.
glosses: A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
Derived terms: acid jazz
Afro-Cuban jazz
all that jazz
bluegrass jazz
bluegrass-jazz
cool jazz
electrojazz
Ethio-jazz
free jazz
good enough for jazz
gypsy jazz
hot jazz
jazz around
jazz band
jazzbo
jazz bow
jazz box
jazz cabbage
jazz cigarette
jazzcore
jazz dance
jazzdom
jazz dot
jazzen
jazzer
jazzerati
jazzercise
jazzetry
jazzfest
jazz funeral
jazz-funk
jazz fusion
jazz garter
jazz hands
jazzhead
jazz-hop
jazzical
jazzification
jazzify
jazzish
jazzist
jazzistic
jazz journalism
jazzless
jazz-like
jazz mag
jazz mugham
jazz-mugham
jazznik
jazzophile
jazzophone
jazz pants
jazzperson
jazz poet
jazz poetry
jazz rap
jazz-rock
jazz square
jazzstep
jazzster
jazz up
jazzwoman
jazzy
modal jazz
nonjazz
nu-jazz
nu jazz
outjazz
progressive jazz
punk-jazz
punk jazz
smooth jazz
straight-ahead jazz
traditional jazz
trad jazz