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jivey

[jahy-vee] / ˈdʒaɪ vi /






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Especially in the tattoo-parlor scenes, the girls’ jivey, slang-infused chatter is rushed and blurred.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2017

It seems like a jivey do-gooder’s praise-rap for womankind, but I couldn’t dope out the intent.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2016

I suspect Bearden would have enjoyed a QuickTime animation by Nicole Miller that features the Princeton professor Cornel West talking a fluent, jivey metaphysical funny blue streak, and sounding like Bearden collages sometimes look.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011

Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe.

From Time Magazine Archive




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