zizzy

comparative more zizzy · superlative most zizzy

1. informalZazzy; flashy; eye-catching.

   How did you write a zizzy tabloid head in ten minutes from what they did have in the box?

   1988, The Listener

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   The irrepressible and arguably irredeemable Al Capp, an expansive, mature and very regular citizen from New Haven, Connecticut, is a man with a facility for open, cynical wise-cracks, a man who knows a zizzy pin-stripe when he sees one […]

   1973, Punch

   A week ago, she had daubed them all with body paint—Hugh and Robert red with spots, even the solemn Charles a zizzy green.

   2012, Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman

2. informalTingling.

   I go to the window again in my terry-cloth robe, my heart pumping, a zizzy bee-sting quiver down my arms and legs, my bare feet cold on the floor planks.

   2012, Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land

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   There's a zizzy feeling, prickles in my fingers and toes and a sudden blackness with whorls of light. When I come to Aunt is leaning over me, her ear next to my heart and her fat hot fingers loosening the buttons at the collar of my dress.

   1998, Myra Schneider, John Killick, Writing for self-discovery