jolly

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jolly Definition

• (n) a happy party
• (n) a yawl used by a ship''s sailors for general work
• (r) used as an intensifier (`jolly'' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"
• (s) 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"
• (v) be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

jolly Synonyms

• banter
• chaff
• gay
• jocund
• jolly
• jolly boat
• josh
• jovial
• kid
• merry
• mirthful
• pretty