jiveyadj.
/ˈdʒʌɪvi/ slang (chiefly U.S.).
Jazzy, ‘swinging’, lively (see also quot. 1953); also, misleading, phoney, pretentious.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of
Chicagoan1861
bad1897
hot1918
red-hot1918
soft1921
low-down1922
sweet1924
barrel-house1926
New Orleans1926
straight1926
crazy1927
dirty1927
hotcha1930
jungle1935
solid1935
traditional jazz1935
powerhouse1937
gutty1939
riffy1939
jivey1944
Kansas City1946
cool1948
West Coast1949
far-out1954
nutty1955
swinging1955
mainstream1957
Afro-Latin1958
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective]
fakenOE
fraudulent1412
fraudfulc1475
impostorous?1549
imposterous1562
cavillinga1576
impostural1588
cogged1589
defraudfulc1592
imposturious?a1600
imposturizing1603
imposturous1608
impostured1619
circumventive1630
impostrate1632
imposterious1633
impostrous1635
charlatanical1663
quackish1670
charlatan1671
stellionated1672
shammisha1734
shim-sham1797
humbug1811
charlatanic1843
Peter Funk1845
charlatanish1846
jazzy1934
run-out1938
jivey1972
1944 [in the popular song Mairzy Doats by M. Drake, A. Hoffman, and J. Livingston].
1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §149/13 ‘Knowing’; ‘hep’ (manifesting knowledge of what is proper or fashionable)..jivey.
1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz xv. 187 Stuff Smith, one of the jiviest.
1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz xix. 248 Bassist Slam Steuart was..primarily a jivey Swing man who hummed solos loudly as he played.
1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha ii. 85 I'm not sure I would have accepted that sort of jivey explanation, but Mrs. Halliday did.
1972 Jazz & Blues Dec. 28/1 This coupling finds him in jivey mood.
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adj.1944