nazz

as used by David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, nazz means the hippest, most magnetic of beings. He clearly lifted this term (and many other phrases) from the 50's--60's beat poetry of Richard "Lord" Buckley whose poem The Nazz is a jive iteration about Jesus of Nazareth.

Buckley says in his poem, "Now, The Nazz was the kind of a cat that come on so cool
and so grooovey and so with-it..."

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