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Zizzy vs Zazzy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between zizzy and zazzy

is that zizzy is zazzy; flashy; eye-catching while zazzy is (slang) shiny or flashy.

zizzy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • zazzy; flashy; eye-catching
  • * 1973 , Punch
  • The irrepressible and arguably irredeemable Al Capp, an expansive, mature and very regular citizen from New Haven, Connecticut, is a man with a facility for open, cynical wise-cracks, a man who knows a zizzy pin-stripe when he sees one
  • * 1988 , The Listener
  • How did you write a zizzy tabloid head in ten minutes from what they did have in the box?
  • * 2012 , Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman
  • A week ago, she had daubed them all with body paint—Hugh and Robert red with spots, even the solemn Charles a zizzy green.
  • tingling
  • * 1998 , Myra Schneider, John Killick, Writing for self-discovery
  • There's a zizzy feeling, prickles in my fingers and toes and a sudden blackness with whorls of light. When I come to Aunt is leaning over me, her ear next to my heart and her fat hot fingers loosening the buttons at the collar of my dress.
  • * 2012 , Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
  • I go to the window again in my terry-cloth robe, my heart pumping, a zizzy bee-sting quiver down my arms and legs, my bare feet cold on the floor planks.

    zazzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) shiny or flashy
  • * 1967 , Harper's Bazaar (volume 100, page 240)
  • Below: The zazziest nylon tricot pettipants — a dazzle of yellows, blues, pinks and greens, scalloped at the edges.
  • * 1981 , Financial Mail (page 1338)
  • So who's this madman launching a new car from a brand-new company? He is John Z De Lorean, one-time Detroit executive, whose new car — the De Lorean — sells at $25000 a throw. For that price you get a zazzy , European-styled sports job