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Antonyms for jazzing
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : jaz |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒæz |
Definition of jazzing
Origin :- by 1912, American English, first attested in baseball slang; as a type of music, attested from 1913. Probably ultimately from Creole patois jass "strenuous activity," especially "sexual intercourse" but also used of Congo dances, from jasm (1860) "energy, drive," of African origin (cf. Mandingo jasi, Temne yas), also the source of slang jism.
- If the truth were known about the origin of the word 'Jazz' it would never be mentioned in polite society. ["Étude," Sept. 1924]
- All that jazz "et cetera" first recorded 1939.
- As in pretend : verb fake, falsify
- As in stimulate : verb excite, provoke
- I've seen you jazzing about the place when you haven't seen me, Dods.
- Extract from : « This Freedom » by A. S. M. Hutchinson
- In all classes of people there was an epidemic of dancing, jazzing, card-playing, theater-going.
- Extract from : « Now It Can Be Told » by Philip Gibbs
- Possibly the catchiest of these, a really cute little thing, was achieved by jazzing up the Funeral March.
- Extract from : « And All the Earth a Grave » by Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp)
- They'll probably be jazzing up those sleek babies and that takes a lot of repair and work.
- Extract from : « Treachery in Outer Space » by Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman
- It's getting to be almost as big a craze as jazzing and is quite as exciting.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156., March 5, 1919 » by Various
Synonyms for jazzing
- act
- activate
- affect
- allege
- animate
- arouse
- assume
- be deceitful
- be hypocritical
- beguile
- bluff
- build a fire under
- cheat
- claim
- claim falsely
- commove
- counterfeit
- cozen
- deceive
- delude
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- dupe
- dynamize
- elate
- encourage
- energize
- enliven
- exhilarate
- fake out
- fan
- feign
- fire
- fire up
- fish
- foment
- fool
- foster
- fudge
- galvanize
- get one going
- get one started
- goad
- grab
- hoodwink
- hook
- impel
- impersonate
- incite
- inflame
- innervate
- innerve
- inspire
- instigate
- jazz
- jive
- juice
- key up
- lay claim
- let on
- make out
- malinger
- masquerade
- mislead
- motivate
- move
- pass off
- pass oneself off as
- perk
- pique
- prod
- profess
- prompt
- purport
- put on
- put up a front
- quicken
- rouse
- send
- set up
- sham
- shuck and jive
- simulate
- spark
- spirit
- spur
- steam up
- stir up
- stonewall
- sucker
- support
- trigger
- turn on
- urge
- vitalize
- vivify
- wake up
- whet
- whitewash
- work up
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