jivey
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of jivey
Example Sentences
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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
Scott is played with a sort of quizzical intelligence by Richard Pryor in a performance very different from his equally effective role as the jivey thief in Silver Streak.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a setting of colorful and imaginatively jivey musical numbers, this ingenuous little tale might easily, and happily, have been pretty well lost.
From Time Magazine Archive
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