zhuzhyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zhuzhy_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezhuzhy, adj.
First published 2020

zhuzhyadjective

slang.
  1. 1968–
    Stylish, attractive, exciting. Also sometimes: flamboyant, showy.
    In early use chiefly among gay men, apparently in Polari slang.
    1. 1968
      Lady Bright is a brilliant creation—a wild, zhooshy quean.
      Stage 25 April 13/2
    2. 1970
      A zhooshy quean is a grand quean.
      P. Burton, Lang. of their own: Polari, West End Homosexual Slang (typescript) (OED Archive) p. ii
    3. 1993
      Gareth wears a pillbox hat and a very zhuzhy jacket.
      TV Quick 23 January (Central Region edition) 6/4
    4. 2007
      I've got this new scarf I bought in Melbourne, so I looked, you know, zhooshy enough.
      Daily Telegraph (Australia) (Nexis) 23 June 16
    5. 2018
      My fave show of the year. It's just SO wonderful. Just the classiest, zhuzhiest, cleverest, most perfect..production.
      @TinuCraig 22 December in twitter.com (accessed 7 May 2020)

zhuzhy, adj. was first published in December 2020.

zhuzhy, adj. was last modified in July 2023.