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jazz
English
Alternative forms
- jaz, jas, jass, jasz (all dated, 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.
Pronunciation
- enPR: j?z, IPA(key): /d??æz/
- Rhymes: -æz
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.
- Unspecified thing(s).
- (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- Nonsense.
- Semen, jizz.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)
- To destroy.
- To play (jazz music).
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
- To complicate.
- (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
- (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. [from 20th c.]
- To distract or pester.
- To ejaculate.
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
Translations
References
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /??as/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?d??as/
Noun
jazz m (plural jazz)
- jazz
Derived terms
- jazzístic
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.
- “jazz” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Noun
jazz m
- jazz
Declension
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??z/
- Hyphenation: jazz
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
- jazz
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j?ts/, [?j?ts?]
- Rhymes: -?ts
- Syllabification: jazz
Noun
jazz
- jazz (style of music)
Declension
Synonyms
- jatsi
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz. The compound jazband is attested in a 1918 copy of Le Matin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??z/
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
- (music) jazz (music style)
Derived terms
- jazz
- jazzifier
- jazzman
Further reading
- “jazz” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??az/, /?d???z/
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
- (music) jazz
Adjective
jazz (invariable)
- (relational) jazz
- Synonym: jazzistico
Derived terms
- jazzista
- jazzistico
References
- jazz in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- jass
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- jass
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Noun
jazz m (definite singular jazzen)
- (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d???s/
Noun
jazz m inan
- jazz (music)
Declension
Synonyms
- d?ez
Derived terms
- jazzowy
- jazzband
- jazzman
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English jazz.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?d???s/
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
- (music) jazz (music genre)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:jazz.
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.
Pronunciation
Noun
jazz m (uncountable)
- jazz
Derived terms
- jazzista m or f
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swag
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /swæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
Verb
swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) sway.
- Synonyms: sway, lurch
- (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
- 1530, John Palsgrave, L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse
- I swagge as a fatte persos belly swaggeth as he goth.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
- (transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
- 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting (page 19)
- Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.
- 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting (page 19)
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
- He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
- A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
- 1902, D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182.
- Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy […] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.
- 1902, D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182.
Derived terms
- swagger
Etymology 2
Clipping of swagger. A common pseudo-etymology is the derivation as acronym for “secretly we are gay”, or other unlikely phrases.
Noun
swag (uncountable)
- (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
- 2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119
- Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!
- 2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119
Derived terms
- swag it out
Etymology 3
From 18th c. British thieves' slang.
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. [18th c.]
- Synonym: stock
- (thieves' cant, uncountable) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle. [18th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:booty
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 19:
- “It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag, is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.
- 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale”, New York Magazine, page 38
- He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their swag and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.
- (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions. [late 20th c.]
- (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
- (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
- 2010 August 31, "Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener", The New Zealand Herald:
- New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.
- 2010 August 31, "Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener", The New Zealand Herald:
Derived terms
- swagful, swagless
- (shop): rum swag, swag barrow
- (stolen goods): swag bag, swag chovey bloke, swagsman (“fence”)
- (itinerant's belongings): swagman
Verb
swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)
- (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). [From 1850s.]
- 1880, James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia, page 259,
- He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
- 1976, Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review, page 158,
- That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.
- 2006, Inga Clendinnen, The History Question: Who Owns the Past?, Quarterly Essay, Issue 23, page 3,
- The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day?s swagging.
- 2011, Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC, page 21,
- Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.
- 1880, James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia, page 259,
- To transport stolen goods.
Derived terms
- swaggie
- swagman
- swag it
Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
- I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- AWGs, GWAS, WAGs, wags
Old Frisian
Etymology
From a word referring to the fence around a pasture; cf. Old Norse sveigr (“supple branch, headkerchief”), ultimately from a root meaning to bend or twist.
Noun
sw?g f
- pasture
Descendants
- Dutch: Zwaag
- Frisian: sweach, swaech
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “zwaag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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