Zizzy vs Zazzy - What's the difference?
zizzy | zazzy |
zazzy; flashy; eye-catching
* 1973 , Punch
* 1988 , The Listener
* 2012 , Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman
tingling
* 1998 , Myra Schneider, John Killick, Writing for self-discovery
* 2012 , Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
(slang) shiny or flashy
* 1967 , Harper's Bazaar (volume 100, page 240)
* 1981 , Financial Mail (page 1338)
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)- 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
- How did you write a zizzy tabloid head in ten minutes from what they did have in the box?
- A week ago, she had daubed them all with body paint—Hugh and Robert red with spots, even the solemn Charles a zizzy green.
- 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.
- 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)- Below: The zazziest nylon tricot pettipants — a dazzle of yellows, blues, pinks and greens, scalloped at the edges.
- 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