jolly

6 definitions found

jolly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jolly \Jol"ly\ (j[o^]l"l[y^]), a. [Compar. Jollier
     (-l[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Jolliest.] [OF. joli, jolif,
     joyful, merry, F. joli pretty; of Scand. origin, akin to E.
     yule; cf. Icel. j[=o]l yule, Christmas feast. See Yule.]
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     1. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.
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              Like a jolly troop of huntsmen.       --Shak.
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              "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
              But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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     2. Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and
        gayety.
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              And with his jolly pipe delights the groves.
                                                    --Prior.
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              Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear.
                                                    --Fairfax.
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     3. Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively;
        agreeable; pleasant. "A jolly cool wind." --Sir T. North.
        [Now mostly colloq.]
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              Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions. --W.
                                                    Irving.
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  Jolly \Jol"ly\ (j[o^]l"l[y^]), v. t.
     To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to
     feel pleasant or cheerful; -- often implying an insincere or
     bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at. [Colloq.]
  
           We want you to jolly them up a bit.      --Brander
                                                    Matthews.
  
           At noon we lunched at the tail of the ambulance, and
           gently "jollied" the doctor's topography. --F.
                                                    Remington.
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  Jolly \Jol"ly\ (j[o^]l"l[y^]), n.; pl. Jollies
     (j[o^]l"l[i^]z). [Prob. fr. Jolly, a.]
     A marine in the English navy. [Sailor's Slang]
  
           I'm a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an'
           sailor too!                              --Kipling.
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jolly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  jolly
      adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
             big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
             priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
             [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly,
             somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant:
             immoderately, unreasonably]
      adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
             were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in
             such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at
             the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old
             gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry
             laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund,
             jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful]
      n 1: a happy party
      2: a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work [syn: jolly   boat
         , jolly]
      v 1: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just
           kidded around" [syn: kid, chaff, jolly, josh,
           banter]

jolly - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Jolly, TX (city, FIPS 37924)
    Location: 33.87681 N, 98.34592 W
    Population (1990): 201 (67 housing units)
    Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

jolly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  157 Moby Thesaurus words for "jolly":
     Naval Reservist, Royal Marine, Seabee, addled, animated, appease,
     banter, beery, bemused, besotted, blandish, blarney, blind drunk,
     blithe, blithesome, bluejacket, boon, boot, butter, butter up,
     buxom, cadet, cajole, carouse, celebrate, chaff, cheerful, cheery,
     coltish, convivial, crapulent, crapulous, cut loose, debauch,
     deceive, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, exuberant, far-gone,
     festal, festive, flustered, fool, fou, free and easy, frisky,
     frivolous, frogman, frolicsome, full, fun, gala, gay, get around,
     giddy, gladsome, gleeful, glorious, gob, hail-fellow-well-met,
     happy, haze, hearty, hell around, high-spirited, hilarious, hoax,
     honey, horse marine, humor, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated,
     inebrious, intoxicated, jape, jest, jive, jocose, jocular, jocund,
     joke, jollify, josh, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, kid,
     kid along, lark, laughter-loving, lay it on, let go, let loose,
     let off steam, lighthearted, make merry, make whoopee, marine,
     maudlin, mellow, merry, merrymaking, midshipman, midshipmite,
     mirth-loving, mirthful, mischievous, muddled, nappy, naval cadet,
     navy man, needle, oil, on the loose, overdo it, play up to,
     playful, put on, rag, raise hell, rally, razz, reeling, rejoicing,
     revel, rib, ride, risible, roast, roguish, roister, see life,
     shikker, skylark, soap, sodden, soft-soap, soften up, sotted,
     sportive, spree, step out, string along, stroke, swabbie, tease,
     tiddly, tipsy, twit, under the influence, waggish, wanton,
     whoop it up