jaz

Definitions

1. Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).
   uncountable
2. A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
3. A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine or any of its variant spellings.
4. A diminutive of the male given name James.
5. A diminutive of the female given name Janet or Janette.

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Examples

“In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest⟳ of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it feels to lose⟳ someone, and yourself, even as the rest⟳ of the world turns, and you struggle⟳ to keep⟳ up.”

“I know⟳, from picking up the post⟳ from the hall in the mornings, that Jaz has a mother in Northumbria who thinks her daughter's name⟳ is Janette. That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.”

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