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jo-jeezly

jo-jeezly adjective: stubborn, ornery, cantankerous.

Adjective

jo-jeezly (not comparable)

  1. (Maine, US) Stubborn, ornery, cantankerous.
    • Longer’n a hard winter: Endless, as, “That jo-jeezly game warden lectured me longer’n a hard winter.”1991, James E. Myers, editor, A Treasury of Hunting and Fishing Humor, page 188
    • jo-jeezly Used to describe someone or something stubborn, ornery. “He’s so jo-jeezly he’ll never admit he did it wrong.”[2000, Robert Hendricksen, editor, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Yankee Talk, page 252
  2. (Maine, US) Unpleasant, bad.
    • Everywhere I went I heard complaints: “Godfrey mighty! Ain’t this heat a killer? Haven’t seen anything so jo-jeezly since eighty-seven!”1995, Donald Bain, Martinis and Mayhem: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery, page 6
    • Newyork City sucks it is the dirtiest, ugliest, yuckiest jo-jeezly city in the yoonerverse.1999 April 1, Gus Andrews, “I Don’t Take Shit from Anyone”, in The Omen Archives, page 16

Origin of jo-jeezly

Compare jeezly (general intensifier).

Questions about jo-jeezly

What does jo-jeezly mean?
Jo-jeezly means stubborn, ornery, cantankerous.
What part of speech is jo-jeezly?
Jo-jeezly is an adjective.

Words near jo-jeezly in the dictionary

  1. Jo'burg
  2. Jo-Ann
  3. Jo-Anne
  4. Jo-ch'iang
  5. Jo-chiang
  6. jo-jeezly
  7. Jo-Jo book
  8. Jo-Jo books
  9. Jo.
  10. JO1
  11. Joab

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