jazzing, vbl. n. (and ppl. a.) orig. U.S. slang.
(ˈdʒæzɪŋ)
[f. jazz v. + -ing1, -ing2.]
1. The playing of jazz music; jazz dancing. Also attrib. or as ppl. adj.
| 1918 Red Cross Mag. Oct. 53/1 When I was singing this, one poor fellow..endeavored to keep time to my jazzing by wiggling his toes! 1919 Lit. Digest 26 Apr. 28/1 The negro loves anything that is peculiar in music, and this ‘jazzing’ appeals to him strongly. 1920 P. Gibbs Realities of War viii. v. 437 There was an epidemic of dancing, Jazzing, card-playing, theatre-going. 1920 Glasgow Herald 26 Feb. 9 This business woman of 1920 has nothing of the jazzing featherhead about her appearance. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Aug. 617/1 Good jazzing partners were scarce. 1922 Chesterton Ballad St. Barbara 75 Of earth's other tributes are plenty to choose, Tobacco and petrol and Jazzing and Jews. 1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club vii. 80 They had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. 1938 Life 26 Dec. 52/2 Whiteman's new-fangled jazzing of the classics. |
2. Sexual intercourse. slang.
| 1958 Murtagh & Harris Cast First Stone xiv. 205 She asked if I wanted to do a little jazzing... I said, ‘How much?’ ‘Two dollars,’ she said. |