jazzy

comparative jazzier · superlative jazziest

1. In the style of jazz.

   Synonyms: jazzlike

2. Flashy or showy.

   Synonyms: flashy, gaudy

3. Lacking focus; jittery or jangly.

   The letters seemed to go all jazzy on her and then they kept shifting, changing direction and making new patterns that she couldn't recognize.

   2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 109

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   Your mother-of-pearl teeth, hard thighs, heaving ribcage — The smooth back of your adolescent neck, Your hot testicles swimming with future generations, And that rhinoceros horn there that makes you shiver all jazzy — You are where I get my fantasies, nigra.

   1996, Daniel J. Wideman, Rohan B. Preston, Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, page 189

   John was waiting in the health club's juice bar, wearing a gray pinstriped Oxford suit and a blue Hermes tie. "You look all jazzy," Tyler said as he approached his partner. "I got you a cup of coffee."

   2005, Peter Thomas, The Den of the Assassin, →ISBN, page 247

   Synonyms: jittery, jangling