[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "PIzzazz"

Peter Reitan pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 14 19:33:00 UTC 2022 

ADS-L post by Gerald Cohen March 17, 2016.
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2016-March/141270.html

“Barry Popik (writer of the extraordinary website barrypopik.com) recently shared the following
information with Ben Zimmer and me, and I now share it with ads-l; the word fits into the pattern of early 20th century humorous words in /z/, e.g., lallapazzazza, Bazzazzaville, "comme il spazaza"
(= humorous alteration of French "comme il faut," i.e., properly), and (noticed by Ben Zimmer) 1910 "razapazaz".

[From Barry Popik]:
PAZAZA--While updating "City That Never Sleeps," I noticed "Pazaza" in the San Francisco Call in 1908. Seems to be an influence on "pizzazz" and probably "jazz" Do we have this?

Gerald Cohen”

When I first saw that I had already collected a number of possible -zz- word connections, apparently (in my mind) influenced originally from Razzle Dazzle (1885) and extending (I though) through pazaza and jazz.  Razzle Dazzle was said to have originally been stage slang for wowing an audience.  “Razzle” itself can be found in earlier English dialect glossaries, meaning to roast something over a fire.

“Razzle Dazzle” became widespread with a variety of possible meanings, but became most popular in a song “razzle dazzle,” sung by a trio in a popular stage play – with “razzle dazzle” referring to how they feel after drinking too much.

Gerald and Barry and I shared private e-mail correspondence about the connections at the time, but I never posted anything about it, and I don’t know whether anyone else pursued it further after that.  If I recall, Gerald Cohen said in one of those e-mails that he would be “hesitant to push the ‘jazz’ connection too strongly” at the time.


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This is an intriguing point by John.  The semantic and phonetic similaritie=
s between "jazz" and "pizzazz" are striking.  Both were used in phrases suc=
h as "the old jazz," "the old pizzazz."  "Jazz" itself seems to have arisen=
 as a synonym for "pep" or "ginger" or "vim," etc.

Fred Shapiro



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I am struck by the similarities between =1B$B!H=1B(Bpizzazz=1B$B!I=1B(B and=
 the early California uses of =1B$B!H=1B(Bjazz,=1B$B!I=1B(B and of course t=
here is also a similarity of sound/spelling.  Is there any more to the appa=
rent connection?


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Great work Fred and Ben.
Back in June 2022 there was a thread on this mailing list about the
notion that slang terms often appear in the names of racehorses.

There was a horse named Fizazz who ran at the Saratoga racetrack in
1934 and 1935. There are many matches for this horse name in
newspapers.com. There are matches in 1940, too.

Date: August 17, 1934
Newspaper: The Boston Globe
Newspaper Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Article: Tomorrow's Entries
News Service: Associated Press
Quote Page 21, Column 6
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin excerpt]
SARATOGA
...
SIXTH RACE 5 1/2 furlongs (10); Sun Idol, 115; Dancing Cloud, 115;
Star Shadow, 115; Epaulet, 115; Nautch, 115; Over-stimulate, 115;
Broken Up, 115; Scatter Brain, 115; Fizzaz, 112; Cubist, 115.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 3:52 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com<mailto:bgzim=
mer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Following Fred's lead, I looked for other "pizzazz" variants in the Yale
> Daily News archive and found "pizzaz" back to 1935.
>
> ---
> https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19351004-01.2.21<htt=<https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19351004-01.2.21%3chtt=>
ps://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19351004-01.2.21>
> Yale Daily News, Oct. 4, 1935, p. 4, col. 1
> Many an All-American has paled into insignificance on the scales and many=
 a
> Colossus has lacked what _faute de mieux_ is know[n] by the name of
> "pizzaz." Taken as a unit the Yale line is heavy but comparatively green.
> The record they compile in the suicide schedule that lies ahead will depe=
nd
> on just how fast they are able to get across the line, just how much they
> can carry the fight to their opponents, in short just how much pizzaz the=
y
> can muster and keep mustered.
> ---
> https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19360122-01.2.23<htt=<https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19360122-01.2.23%3chtt=>
ps://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19360122-01.2.23>
> Yale Daily News, Jan. 22, 1936, p. 4, col. 1
> In practice yesterday this line was showing some of the old "pizzaz" that
> should carry them into the scoring columns.
> ---
>
> "Pazaz" also appeared in the YDN sports pages in early 1937.
>
> ---
> https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19370118-01.2.27<htt=<https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19370118-01.2.27%3chtt=>
ps://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19370118-01.2.27>
> Yale Daily News, Jan. 18, 1937, p. 4, col. 3
> This year Holc York figured that Clint would have a lot more zip, a littl=
e
> more pazaz (I think that's the Miltonic word), if he were prevented from
> expending all his energy in practice sessions.
> ---
>
> --bgz
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 3:34 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com<mailto:bgz=
immer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > An item in the March 1937 issue of Harper's Bazaar titled "This Thing
> > Called Pizazz" (pp. 116-7) appears to have inspired ad copy in the New =
York
> > Times and elsewhere in late February. (The 2/26/37 NYT ad from The Tail=
ored
> > Woman and a 2/28/37 ad in the New York Herald Tribune from Bonwit Telle=
r
> > both credit HB for "pizazz.") It's fair to assume the March issue was
> > circulating by the end of February, as is typical in fashion magazine
> > publishing. Vogue's famous "September issue," for instance, hits
> > newsstands in mid-August.
> >
> > I see the OED2 "pizzazz" entry used the HB item for its first cite:
> >
> > ---
> > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww=
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c4951c%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637985869291737725%7CUn=
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> > 1937 Harper's Bazaar Mar. 116/2 Pizazz, to quote the editor of the Harv=
ard
> > Lampoon, is an indefinable dynamic quality, the je ne sais quoi of
> > function; as for instance, adding Scotch puts pizazz into a drink. Cert=
ain
> > clothes have it, too.=1B$B!E=1B(B There's pizazz in this rust evening c=
oat.
> > ---
> >
> > In the OED3 entry, this cite has been removed and replaced with the
> > 2/26/37 NYT ad, which Fred first shared here in 2010:
> >
> >
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> > Given that the NYT ad uses the same heading as the Mar. '37 HB item ("T=
his
> > Thing Called Pizazz"), it would make sense to credit HB as the earlier
> > cite, on the assumption that the actual publication date preceded the c=
over
> > date. But this is somewhat of a moot point now that Fred has located th=
e
> > 2/23/37 YDN cite that doesn't rely on Harper's Bazaar at all, suggestin=
g it
> > was already Ivy League slang. A search of the Harvard Lampoon archive m=
ay
> > still trump the Yalies, however.
> >
> > As we've discussed in the past, "pizzazz" had a number of earlier
> > variants. One of these is "pazzazza" (or "pazazza"), which appears in t=
he
> > databases with various slang meanings going back to c1902. (There was a
> > musical recording called "The Pazzazza Promenade" in 1910.) This exampl=
e
> > from 1932 indicates that "pazzazza" could be used with the same "peppy"
> > meaning later associated with "pizzazz."
> >
> > ---
> > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww=
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> > Evening News (Harrisburg, Pa.), Oct. 26, 1932, p. 10, col. 2
> > "The Once Over" by H.I. Phillips [NY Sun column syndicated by Associate=
d
> > Newspapers]
> > The presidential campaign is boring people. It lacks hot-cha. ... The
> > campaign has had no pace, no pep, no pazzazza.
> > ---
> >
> > Perhaps worth a bracketed cite in the OED entry.
> >
> > --bgz
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 9:36 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu<ma=
ilto:fred.shapiro at yale.edu>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The origins of the word "pizzazz" are a bit mysterious. The OED's firs=
t
> >> citation is from the New York Times, Feb. 26, 1937, and the Times
> >> attributed the term to the Harvard Lampoon and Harper's Bazaar. But no=
 one
> >> has found prior citations in the Lampoon or HB.
> >>
> >> A slightly earlier citation points to a different Ivy League school:
> >>
> >> 1937 _Yale Daily News_ 23 Feb. 4/3 (Yale Daily News Historical Archive=
)
> >> That the Blues were potentially better skaters cannot be doubted, but
> >> somehow they lacked the old pizzazz down on the Arena ice last night.
> >>
> >
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Subject: Re: Slight Antedating of "PIzzazz"

I am struck by the similarities between =1B$B!H=1B(Bpizzazz=1B$B!I=1B(B and=
 the early California uses of =1B$B!H=1B(Bjazz,=1B$B!I=1B(B and of course t=
here is also a similarity of sound/spelling.  Is there any more to the appa=
rent connection?


John Baker


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son O'Toole
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Great work Fred and Ben.
Back in June 2022 there was a thread on this mailing list about the
notion that slang terms often appear in the names of racehorses.

There was a horse named Fizazz who ran at the Saratoga racetrack in
1934 and 1935. There are many matches for this horse name in
newspapers.com. There are matches in 1940, too.

Date: August 17, 1934
Newspaper: The Boston Globe
Newspaper Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Article: Tomorrow's Entries
News Service: Associated Press
Quote Page 21, Column 6
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin excerpt]
SARATOGA
...
SIXTH RACE 5 1/2 furlongs (10); Sun Idol, 115; Dancing Cloud, 115;
Star Shadow, 115; Epaulet, 115; Nautch, 115; Over-stimulate, 115;
Broken Up, 115; Scatter Brain, 115; Fizzaz, 112; Cubist, 115.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 3:52 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com<mailto:bgzim=
mer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Following Fred's lead, I looked for other "pizzazz" variants in the Yale
> Daily News archive and found "pizzaz" back to 1935.
>
> ---
> https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19351004-01.2.21<htt=<https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19351004-01.2.21%3chtt=>
ps://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19351004-01.2.21>
> Yale Daily News, Oct. 4, 1935, p. 4, col. 1
> Many an All-American has paled into insignificance on the scales and many=
 a
> Colossus has lacked what _faute de mieux_ is know[n] by the name of
> "pizzaz." Taken as a unit the Yale line is heavy but comparatively green.
> The record they compile in the suicide schedule that lies ahead will depe=
nd
> on just how fast they are able to get across the line, just how much they
> can carry the fight to their opponents, in short just how much pizzaz the=
y
> can muster and keep mustered.
> ---
> https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19360122-01.2.23<htt=<https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19360122-01.2.23%3chtt=>
ps://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19360122-01.2.23>
> Yale Daily News, Jan. 22, 1936, p. 4, col. 1
> In practice yesterday this line was showing some of the old "pizzaz" that
> should carry them into the scoring columns.
> ---
>
> "Pazaz" also appeared in the YDN sports pages in early 1937.
>
> ---
> https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19370118-01.2.27<htt=<https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19370118-01.2.27%3chtt=>
ps://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=3Dd&d=3DYDN19370118-01.2.27>
> Yale Daily News, Jan. 18, 1937, p. 4, col. 3
> This year Holc York figured that Clint would have a lot more zip, a littl=
e
> more pazaz (I think that's the Miltonic word), if he were prevented from
> expending all his energy in practice sessions.
> ---
>
> --bgz
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 3:34 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com<mailto:bgz=
immer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > An item in the March 1937 issue of Harper's Bazaar titled "This Thing
> > Called Pizazz" (pp. 116-7) appears to have inspired ad copy in the New =
York
> > Times and elsewhere in late February. (The 2/26/37 NYT ad from The Tail=
ored
> > Woman and a 2/28/37 ad in the New York Herald Tribune from Bonwit Telle=
r
> > both credit HB for "pizazz.") It's fair to assume the March issue was
> > circulating by the end of February, as is typical in fashion magazine
> > publishing. Vogue's famous "September issue," for instance, hits
> > newsstands in mid-August.
> >
> > I see the OED2 "pizzazz" entry used the HB item for its first cite:
> >
> > ---
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> > 1937 Harper's Bazaar Mar. 116/2 Pizazz, to quote the editor of the Harv=
ard
> > Lampoon, is an indefinable dynamic quality, the je ne sais quoi of
> > function; as for instance, adding Scotch puts pizazz into a drink. Cert=
ain
> > clothes have it, too.=1B$B!E=1B(B There's pizazz in this rust evening c=
oat.
> > ---
> >
> > In the OED3 entry, this cite has been removed and replaced with the
> > 2/26/37 NYT ad, which Fred first shared here in 2010:
> >
> >
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> > Given that the NYT ad uses the same heading as the Mar. '37 HB item ("T=
his
> > Thing Called Pizazz"), it would make sense to credit HB as the earlier
> > cite, on the assumption that the actual publication date preceded the c=
over
> > date. But this is somewhat of a moot point now that Fred has located th=
e
> > 2/23/37 YDN cite that doesn't rely on Harper's Bazaar at all, suggestin=
g it
> > was already Ivy League slang. A search of the Harvard Lampoon archive m=
ay
> > still trump the Yalies, however.
> >
> > As we've discussed in the past, "pizzazz" had a number of earlier
> > variants. One of these is "pazzazza" (or "pazazza"), which appears in t=
he
> > databases with various slang meanings going back to c1902. (There was a
> > musical recording called "The Pazzazza Promenade" in 1910.) This exampl=
e
> > from 1932 indicates that "pazzazza" could be used with the same "peppy"
> > meaning later associated with "pizzazz."
> >
> > ---
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> > Evening News (Harrisburg, Pa.), Oct. 26, 1932, p. 10, col. 2
> > "The Once Over" by H.I. Phillips [NY Sun column syndicated by Associate=
d
> > Newspapers]
> > The presidential campaign is boring people. It lacks hot-cha. ... The
> > campaign has had no pace, no pep, no pazzazza.
> > ---
> >
> > Perhaps worth a bracketed cite in the OED entry.
> >
> > --bgz
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 9:36 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu<ma=
ilto:fred.shapiro at yale.edu>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The origins of the word "pizzazz" are a bit mysterious. The OED's firs=
t
> >> citation is from the New York Times, Feb. 26, 1937, and the Times
> >> attributed the term to the Harvard Lampoon and Harper's Bazaar. But no=
 one
> >> has found prior citations in the Lampoon or HB.
> >>
> >> A slightly earlier citation points to a different Ivy League school:
> >>
> >> 1937 _Yale Daily News_ 23 Feb. 4/3 (Yale Daily News Historical Archive=
)
> >> That the Blues were potentially better skaters cannot be doubted, but
> >> somehow they lacked the old pizzazz down on the Arena ice last night.
> >>
> >
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