Definitions
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- n. informal, dated An enthusiast of jazz music.
Etymologies
- From jazz (music) + cutesy or ironic use of the Slavic suffix -nik (Russian: -ник). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Russian launch of the Sputnik spacecraft. Compare beatnik. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sounding like the daughter of Doris Day and Leon Redbone, she is a playful girl one moment and a ferociously swingin' jazznik the next. 7 p.m.”
“McKay, 28, was a playful girl one moment and a ferociously swingin' jazznik the next.”
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