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🍓 With fruit jam 🍀 Very lucky 🎸 Like a jam session
jammy

jammy

8.1
Like a jam session, with musicians making up music as they play
  • adjective
  • /ˈdʒæmi/
translation icon : improvisado
  • Her guitar solo added a jammy quality to the song, making it feel spontaneous and lively.

Examples

  • The band played a jammy tune that encouraged everyone to join in and improvise.

  • During the festival, the musicians created a jammy atmosphere that brought the audience together.

  • You know, we were pretty, pretty loose and jammy, but not completely.

Compounds

jammy job
  • Slang
7.6

An easy job that pays well and needs little work

jammy life
  • Slang
9.1

A comfortable life with good luck and little effort

jammy stroke of luck
  • Slang
9.5

An unexpected good thing that happens by chance

Surface Forms

jammy positive

Morphology

jammy = jam (transparent) = jam + y

Derived by adding '-y' to 'jam' (music), meaning 'characteristic of a jam session', which a learner familiar with 'jam' (music) can infer.

Etymology

Jammy for music comes from jam as in jam session, where musicians 'play together and make things up as they go'. So a jammy performance feels loose, creative, and full of surprising solos.