Snazzy

Definition: Snazzy

Snazzy

Adjective

1. (informal) flashily stylish; "a snazzy outfit".

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

You afraid I'm gonna get picked off in my snazzy running suit? (The Bodyguard; writing credit: Lawrence Kasdan)

Are you denying the snazzy of that? (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond)

Now who can deny the snazzy of that? (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond)

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Domain	Title
Books	Cyberspace Resume Kit: How to Make and Launch a Snazzy Online Resume (reference) Saxophone Sam and His Snazzy Jazz Band (reference) Snazzy Aunties (reference) Staging a Snazzy Senior Showcase (reference) (more book examples)
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"Snazzy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Snazzy" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	90%	27	66,962
Noun (proper)	6.67%	2	245,945
Noun (common)	3.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Expression using "snazzy": flashy gaudy jazzy showy snazzy sporty. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "snazzy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		шик (chic, classy, dressy, pansy, pert, posh, rakish, saucy, swell, swish). (various references)

Farsi		بسیارجالب , بسیارجاذب . (various references)

German		sportlich (athletic, casual, natty, racy, snazzily, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty), flott (brisk, briskly, dashing, glamorous, glamourous, jauntily, lively, nifty, nippy, perky, punchy, quick, racy, saucy, slippy, smart, smartly, snazzily, speedy, sporty, Spruce, sprucely, swift, swiftly, vigorous, zippy). (various references)

Pig Latin		azzysnay

Russian		шикарный (chic, classy, deluxe, nobby, slap up, slap-up, stylish, swanky, swell), броский (psychedelic, splashy, striking), привлекательный (alluring, appealing, attractive, beguiling, catching, cuddly, cunning, dinky, engaging, enticing, fetching, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice-looking, pretty, quaint, well-favoured, well-looking, winsome). (various references)

Spanish		elegante (bijou, chic, courtly, dainty, debonair, dressy, elegant, fashionable, Flossy, fragrant, genteel, graceful, handsome, ladylike, natty, neat, nifty, Nobby, posh, rakish, refined, silk stocking, smart, sporty, stylish, trim). (various references)

Swedish		tjusig (captivating, dishy, nifty). (various references)

Turkish		modaya uygun (a la mode, chic, fashionable, groovy, hip, in style, in the groove, in the ton, in vogue, modish, saucy, stylish, tonish), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Snazzy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nazzie, sazzy, scnazzy, smaczny, snaz, snaze, snazi, snazie, snazy, snazz, sneezy, spazz. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "snazzy" (pronounced sna"zē)
3	-a" z ē	jazzy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-n-s-y-z-z"
	-2 letters: nays, zany.
	-3 letters: any, ays, nay, say, syn.
	-4 letters: an, as, ay, na, ya.
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