Jazznik

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An enthusiast of jazz music. dated, informal

Etymology

From jazz (“music”) + -nik (“person who exemplifies or endorses something”). From the Slavic suffix, as seen on Russian: -ник (-nik). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Russian launch of the Sputnik spacecraft. Compare beatnik.

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