Jolly

  

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Jolly

Definition: Jolly

Jolly

Adjective

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".

Adverb

1. Intensifier, as in "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; (`jolly' is used informally in Britain as in "jolly decent of him").

Noun

1. (British) a happy party.

2. A yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work.

Verb

1. Be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "jolly" was first used: 13th century. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Jolly

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

V. t., To "con" or "josh." Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Dream Interpretation

To dream that you feel jolly and are enjoying the merriment of companions, you will realize pleasure from the good behavior of children and have satisfying results in business. If there comes the least rift in the merriment, worry will intermingle with the success of the future. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Jolly A sailor's nickname for a marine, who, in his opinion, bears the same relation to a "regular" as a jolly-boat or yawl does to a ship. (Danish, jollë, a yawl.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

JOLLY, or JOLLY NOB. The head. I'll lump your jolly nob for you; I'll give you a knock on the head. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Jolly, Texas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Jolly is a city located in Clay County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 188.

Geography


Jolly is located at 33°52'27" North, 98°20'55" West (33.874304, -98.348556)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 188 people, 70 households, and 59 families residing in the city. The population density is 73.3/km² (190.7/mi²). There are 73 housing units at an average density of 28.5/km² (74.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.47% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.53% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 70 households out of which 28.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.7% are married couples living together, 8.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 14.3% are non-families. 12.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.69 and the average family size is 2.90. In the city the population is spread out with 18.1% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 34.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 111.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $44,375, and the median income for a family is $49,375. Males have a median income of $29,375 versus $16,354 for females. The per capita income for the city is $20,467. 1.7% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jolly, Texas."

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Synonyms: Jolly

Synonyms: gay (adj), jocund (adj), jovial (adj), merry (adj), mirthful (adj), pretty (adv), jolly boat (n), banter (v), chaff (v), kid (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Jolly

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious.

Cheerfulness

Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling.

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Mariner

Noun: sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew.

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Size

Corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.

Sociality

Good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant,good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant, bawcock.

Convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable.

Warfare

Raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Jolly

English words defined with "jolly": Ephesiangayjocund, Jolif, Jollily, jollity, jovial, jovialitymerry, Merrymake, mirthfulsilenus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "jolly": ARCHBISHOPBACCHUS, BATTER-OUTCAJOLEDee MillsFeather One's Oarjigger operator, Jolly Dog, Jolly God, Jolly Good FellowMark TapleyNEROpot maker, POTTERY-MACHINE OPERATORQuartetteRoger, RUM BLUFFERSONVerdant Green. (references)
Etymologies containing "jolly": Jolif. (references)

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Modern Usage: Jolly

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Are you having a holly, jolly Christmas (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

Or be crushed be crushed by his jolly boots of doom (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Well, I'm jolly well going to dither, then (Topper; writing credit: Eric Hatch; Jack Jevne)

Edith, come on. 'Tis the season to be jolly, so be jolly (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Jolly good fun (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley)

Movie/TV Titles

Jolly Hocky Sticks (1974)

Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow (1973)

A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)

The Jolly Genie (1963)

Jolly the Clown (1957)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Jolly

DomainTitle

References

  • ITALJOLLY - Compania Italiana Dei Jolly Hotels S.p.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Jolly Christmas Postman, The (reference)

  • Jolly Old Santa Claus (reference)

  • Jolly Postman, The (reference)

  • Jolly Roger With an Uzi: The Rise and Threat of Modern Piracy (reference)

  • The Old Neighborhood: Three Plays: The Disapperance of the Jews, Jolly, Deeny (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Jolly

Photos:
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Photo Album: Jolly

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Fisherman casting his net for mullet and other fish next to the Judge Jolly Bridge on Marco Island. Credit: Fisheries.

For he's a jolly good fellow. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jolly well, ol' chap!. Credit: Library of Congress.

"For he's a jolly good fellow!". Credit: Library of Congress.

'Tis the season to be jolly, my good man! We won - did you know that? Capitalism is triumphant. Communism lies in ruins. Our system prevails! We won! Smile!' / / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress.

A jolly crowd enjoying the refreshing waters of Apollinalis Spring, Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Jolly group in the market-place, Galway, Ireland. Credit: Library of Congress.

The jolly flat boat men / painted by G.C. Bingham, esq. ; engraved by T. Doney ; printed by Powell & Co. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two jolly kittens at a feast / publ. & print. by Th. Kelly, 17 Barclay St., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dear Heinrich, your chaps are alive and well and doing a jolly fine job in the British Army. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Jolly

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

But you too, you are a jolly fellow

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

They passed the farmhouse of the Jolly Farmer

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Jolly

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Moldova

Good, quality office space is available at some of the following locations in Chisinau: Kentford, Petrolbank, TIS Business Center, Jolly Allon Hotel, Alfa (former TV factory) and ASITO office building. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop. If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. Jodo Rem

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Jolly

"Jolly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.57% of the time. "Jolly" is used about 667 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)65.57%43813,172
Adverb (general)26.8%17923,133
Lexical Verb (base form)4.49%3063,341
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.14%2176,261
                    Total100.00%667N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Jolly

The following table summarizes the usage of "jolly" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
JollyLast name7,0001,819
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Jolly

CountryName
Italy

ITALJOLLY - Compania Italiana Dei Jolly Hotels S.p.A.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Jolly


1. 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)
Country: USA

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Expressions: Jolly

Expressions using "jolly": a jolly dog a jolly old blade as jolly as a sandboy jolly along jolly as a sandboy jolly as sandboy Jolly balance jolly boat jolly glad jolly good jolly good fellow jolly roger jolly smb. jolly up jolly well raise the jolly roger run up the jolly roger the jolly roger. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "jolly": jolly-bat, Jolly-boat, jolly-looking.

Ending with "jolly": j-jolly, war-jolly, Water-cum-jolly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jolly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jolly roger

400

jolly hotel st ermins

18

jolly rancher

151

jolly madison tower

17

jolly roger cook book

132

john jolly

16

jolly

105

jolly roger motel

15

jolly hotel

74

jolly roger inn

15

jolly rogers

73

furniture jolly royal

15

jolly jumper

52

antigua beach jolly resort

14

jolly green giant

50

jolly hotel madison tower

13

jolly roger hotel

43

antigua beach jolly

13

jolly roger flag

42

jolly roper

13

jolly beach resort

38

amusement jolly park roger

13

jolly jump

35

beach jolly

12

dwarf jolly

35

hotel jolly lotti

12

jolly phonics

30

jolly hotel carlton

11

jolly rodger

25

drink jolly rancher

11

jolly rancher candy

25

jolly tur

11

cocteau jean jolly

24

jolly ball

11

jolly popcorn time

21

jolly roger picture

11

jolly jumpers

20

jolly madison hotel

11

jolly tour

20

jolly moto

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Jolly

Language Translations for "jolly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), ngacmoj (annoy, badger, banter, bedevil, bother, chaff, chip, dare, excite, guy, harass, Harrow, Harry, irritate, molest, monkey, nag, nettle, provoke, rag, rally, ruffle, tamper, tease), i lezetshëm (agreeable, comely, cool, delicious, delightful, handsome, ingratiatingly, nice, pretty), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), i gazueshëm, gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy), e mbaj gjallë, bëj qejf (go on the spree, go to town, humor, humour, joy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مسرور (cheerful, delighted, glad, happy, joyful, merry, pleased), ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), ‏على نحو مضحك, ‏المرح (facetiousness), ‏ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, likeable, nice, obliging, pet, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

моряк (flatfoot, hearty, mariner, navigator, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, swab, tar, tarpaulin), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), правя шеги (monkey), правя смешки, лаская (adulate, beslaver, blarney, cajole, carny, coax, flatter, incense, palaver, sawder, soap, soft soap, sugar), здравата (like sin, properly, with a vengeance), забавление (amusement, enjoyment, entertainment, pastime, play, recreation, sport), придумвам с ласкателство, много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), развеселен (amused, elevated, exhilarated, merry), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), веселба (carousal, gaiety, jollification, merriment, racket, randan, rattle, rejoicings, revelry, rollick, shine), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), коткам (featherbed, humor, humour), шегувам се (chaff, gag, jape, jest, joke, rally, rot, sport), хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), хубаво (nicely, prettily, very well), закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, dangle, graze, hang, hang out, hang up, hitch, hook, jive, pin on, pin up, put up, rib, ride, roast, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

痛快 , 快活 (merry). (various references)

   

Czech

  

veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), sváteèní, rozjařený, radostný (blithe, cheerful, cheery, exhilarating, festive, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good, joyful, joyous, jubilant, rorty), podnapilý (half seas over, slightly drunk, tipsy), příjemný (agreeable, congenial, dulcet, engaging, enjoyable, good, neighborly, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, Savory, smooth, snug, suave, sweet, winning, winsome). (various references)

   

Danish

  

jolly-vaegt (Jolly balance), Jolly-Stini's teori (Jolly-Stini theory), Jolly's operation (Jolly operation), Jolly's cervix-dilatator (Jolly dilator), Howell-Jolly's korn (Jolly bodies). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uterusdilatator van Jolly (Jolly dilator), operatie van Jolly (Jolly operation), lichaampjes van Howell-Jolly (Jolly bodies), lichaampjes van Howell (Jolly bodies). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

سرکیف (Gay), خیلی (Copious, Damn, Extra, Far, Many, So, Ten, Very), خوشحال (Bouncy, Gay, Glad, Happy, Merry, Sprightly, Wanton), بذله گو (Humorist, Joker, Rogue, Waggish, Witty). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rattoisa (gay), lystikäs (amusing, droll, funny), hupaisa (amusing), hilpeä (animated, bright, brisk, cheerful, gay, lively, merry), hauska (amusing, delightful, nice, pleasant, pleasurable). (various references)

   

French

  

jovial (jocose, jocund, jovial, joyful), gaieté (joy), gai (jocose, jocular, jocund, joyful, joyous), enjoué (jocose, jocular, joyful, joyous), drôlement, agréable (joyful). (various references)

   

German

  

lustig (amusing, blithe, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, droll, frolicsome, funny, gay, happy, hilarious, humorous, jocular, jocularly, jocund, jocundly, jovial, lazy, merry, pert, sportive). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κεφάτος (breezy, in a happy mood, jovial, zestful), μικρή λέμβοσ πλοίου (dinghy), πρόσχαροσ (cheerful, jovial), χαρωπόσ (blithesome, boon, cheerful, cheery, jocund), χαρούμενοσ (cheerful, glad, joyful, merry), χαροπόσ (airy, gleeful, gleesome, jocund, joyous), εύθυμοσ (blithe, chirpy, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, sprightly, zippy), εύθυμος (convivial 2, gay, jovial, merry, playful), ελαφρά μεθυσμένοσ, αστεΰζομαι με τίνα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שמח (cheerful, delighted, gay, glad, gleeful, gleesome, happy, jovial, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased), עליז (blithe, cheerful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful, sprightly), ב"וח (amused, gay), עלס (cheerful, gay, happy, merry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits), spicces (festive, fuzzy, mellow, pickled, pixilated), nagyszerû (Ace, admirable, champion, Dandy, goody, gorgeous, grandiose, magnificent, superb), nagyon (badly, bally, bloody, covetous, ever so much, exceedingly, greatly, have one's nerves on edge, heavily, highly, immensely, jolly well, like hell, like mad, mightily, most, much, much to be desired, passing, pretty, quite, real, right, severely, sorely, thundering, to be broke for sg, to be down with a cold, to be in a fine way about sg, to be rejoiced at sg, to be rejoiced by sg, to feel used up, to get to look very slack, to take pains to do sg, to think the world of sy, to want sg badly, too, very, very much, very much indeed, wondrous), kis csónak (dingey, dinghy, dingy, jolly boat, jolly-boat, yawl), alaposan (exhaustively, extensively, heartily, hot, like old boots, profusely, radically, regularly, roundly, sorely, soundly, substantially, thoroughly, throughly, to be up in a subject, to talk sg out), éljen (cheer, hurrah, hurray, long live, viva). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gembira (bouncy, breezy, cheerful, exulant, gay, glad, happy, merry, rejoice). (various references)

   

Irish

  

sultmhar. (various references)

   

Italian

  

proprio (appropriate, at all, characteristic, exact, exactly, her, his, its, just, literal, one's, one's own, own, particular, personal, proper, proprietary, quite, real, really, right, suitable, their, typical, very, your), molto (a great deal of, a great many, a great quantity of, a lot of, deep, extremely, far, far off, great, greatly, hard, heavily, highly, long, lots of, many, mighty, much, plenty, pretty, quite, sight, sorely, strongly, very, very much, widely), gioviale (jocular, jovial), gaio (airy, blithesome, frolicsome, gay, lightsome, merry, mirthful, rorty, wanton), festoso (joyful, merry), certamente (absolutely, certainly, of course, rather, sure, surely), allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gennal (amiable, blithe, blithesome, cheerful, convivial, gay, genial, good-humoured, jocular, jovial, mirthful). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

veldig (huge, very), morsom (funny, humorous), lystig (cheerful, gay, merry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollyjay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocular, joky, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), muito (a good deal, a great deal of, a lot, a lot of, awfully, deadly, exceedingly, greatly, highly, mighty, much, passing, plaguy, plenty, precious, quite, rare, ripping, sight, so, too, too much, very, very much), lisonjear (beslobber, bespatter, blandish, butter, butter up, cajole, coax, cog, flatter, lackey, lacquey, palaver, soft-soap, wheedle), folgazão (canty, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, merry, rakish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, volatile), escarnecer de alguém, divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), contente (canty, content, contented, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, mirthful, pleased, satisfied, triumphant), completamente (absolutely, all, all out, altogether, bodily, bolt, broad, clear, completely, consummately, directly, downright, entirely, exactly, fairly, full, fully, outright, overall, plenty, plumb, precious, quite, thoroughly, through, throughout, up, utterly, wholly), bem disposto (agreeable, canty, cheerful, jaunty, orderly, peart, tidy, well-disposed), animar (actuate, animate, assure, awake, awaken, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, chirk, comfort, embolden, encourage, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, flush, ginger, grandmother, hearten, heat, incite, inspire, inspirit, jazz, kittle, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, perk, propel, rally, rouse, smarten, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, vivify, warm), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

linguşi (blandish, butter, cajole, coax, flannel, flatter, palaver, toady, wheedle), afumat (boozy, censer, fuddled, half-seasoned, hazy, moony, pickled, smoke dried, smoky, squiffed), bine dispus (cheerful, crank, debonair, full of beans, full-blooded, good humoured, good-humored, in good spirits, merry, mettlesome, tails up, well disposed), cãuta sã amuze, chefliu (bacchanal, bacchanalian, boozer, carouser, drinker, elevated, merry maker, racketeer, reveller, rioter, rip, tippler, trump), cherchelit (boozy, elevated, fuddled, in liquor, mixed, moony, on the fuddle, queer, the worse for liquor, tipsy), face glumi, fi periuţã, foarte (awfully, ever so, exceedingly, greatly, highly, immortally, indeed, most, much, notably, plenty, quite, too, very, very much), a-şi râde de (jape, kid, lash, make sport of, mock, scoff, smile at), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genial, genially, glad, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, mellow, merrily, merry, mirthful, saucy), lua peste picior (Josh, kid, scoff), minunat (beautiful, beautifully, best, brave, bright, capital, champion, charming, delightfully, exceptional, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, passing, proud, royal, special, splendid, strange, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonderful, wonder-working), peria (brush, dress, toady), petrecãreţ (merry maker, reveller, rip), se linguşi (crawl, fawn, palaver, slaver, spaniel, toady), straşnic (clinking, colossal, considerable, damnably, excellent, excessive, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, horrible, magnificent, mightily, nifty, proper, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, tremendous, with a vengeance), uşor ameţit, vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), glumi (dally, fool, jape, jest, joke, kid, lark). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

suilbhir (cheerful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrlo (badly, extremely, intensely, most, passing, right, strongly, true, uncommonly, very, whopping, wide), veseo (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), razveseliti (cheer up, exhilarate, gladden, humor, humour, jollify), radostan (blithe, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleesome, hilarious, jocund, joyful, joyous, merry, rejoicing), prijatan (agreeable, bonny, conversable, cosy, cozy, delectable, enjoyable, gratified, gratifying, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, savory, savoury, welcome), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, gorgeous, great, groovy, high-toned, lovely, magnificent, neat, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, stunning, superb, terrific). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

jovial como los pocos, jovial (cheerful, cheery, friendly, gay, jovial, rollicking), terriblemente (awfully, beastly, calamitously, deadly, Deuce, frightfully, head over heels, hellish, horribly, painfully, terribly), terrible (awful, devastating, dire, dirty, dread, dreadful, eerie, evil, fearful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, outrageous, splitting, terrible, terror, unholy, wicked), seguir a (get on, last, push, remain, trail), regocijado (elate, exhilarated, gleeful, merry), muy (all over, awfully, greatly, hellish, highly, mighty, nice, precious, proper, quite, rattling, sorely, too, very, very much), engatusar (cajole, coax, draw on, get round, hoodwink, lead on, palaver, vamp, wheedle), divertido (amused, amusing, comic, comical, distrait, diverting, droll, enchanting, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, merry), alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

väldigt (almighty, awfully, ever so, hugely, mightily, mighty, precious, thundering, vastly, very, whacking, whaling), glad (bonny, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, Chirk, chirpy, debonair, delighted, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, happy, high, hilarious, jocund, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased). (various references)

   

Thai

  

สนุกสนาน (fun, gamesome, groove, joyous, lark, revel), อย่างยิ่ง, ร่าเริง ((as) happy as a lark, exuberant, frolicsome, gleeful, jaunty, lively, spunk up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

takılmak (banter, be affixed, be attached, catch, chaff, chip, guy, hang out, haunt, hook, impose oneself on, jam, jam in, Josh, kid, lark, lark about, lark around, lock, lock on, pull smb.'s leg, rally, rib, rot, seize, seize up, snag, sport, stick, stick around, tease), su katılmamış (plain, Plumb, undiluted), son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), pek (eminently, ever so, much, quite, rattling, so, spanking, very, very much), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), keyifli (blissful, bucked, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, cosy, delighted, elevated, fit as a fiddle, gay, in a good mood, jovial, merry, pleasant, pleased, rejoicing, up), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), ikna etmek (argue, argue smb. into smth., assure, bring, bring over, bring round, cajole, coax, convince, convince smb. of smth., dispose, draw, entice, fast-talk, have a way with, induce, influence, interest, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon, satisfy, sell smb. on, wheedle, win, win smb. round), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome), fazlasıyla (amply, damned, darned, disproportionate, eminently, exceedingly, extremely, far better, in spades, largely, more than enough, parlous, precious, strongly, superfluously), şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, sportive), alay etmek (deride, flout, gibe, gird at, gird at smb., give smb. a roasting, groove, guy, hold in derision, ironize, jape, jeer, jeer at, jibe, Josh, laugh at, make a game of, make a jest of, make fun of, make merry over, mock, poke fun, poke fun at smb., pull smb.'s leg, razz, ridicule, roast, rot, scoff, take the mickey out of smb., taunt), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping), çakırkeyif (fuddled, halfseas-over, happy, hazy, oiled, on, screwed, shot, somewhat drunk, squiffy, tiddly, tipsy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

святковий (convivial, ferial, festal, festival, festive, gala, holiday, merry), веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), напітпитку, надзвичайно (almighty, amain, anxiously, as anything, awfully, deadly, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, mighty, most, passing, regular, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, very much, woundily), жартувати (badinage, banter, chaff, droll, fun, gag, jape, jest, joke, lark, lark around, monkey, play, trifle, yak), поводитися ласкаво, дуже (anxiously, awfully, bang, bitter, bloody, clinking, curiously, deep, enormously, exceedingly, frightfully, full, gey, greatly, hard, heaps, highly, hugely, immensely, in great measure, mightily, mighty, miles, much, nervously, notably, particularly, passing, precious, purely, real, really, shocking, some, strong, super, thumping, too, very, very much, violently, well, widely). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), vui tươi (roseate), vui nhộn chếnh choáng say, quá (unduly), lắm (clinking, dogged, ever, gey, highly, lousy, mighty, precious, preciously, very), hay ho gớm, hết sức (all-fired, blooming, deadly, dogged, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, handle, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, mightily, mighty, out, precious, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Jolly

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old French900-1400

jolif. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Jolly

Derivations

Words beginning with "jolly": jollying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Jolly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jaly, jelli, Jily, joelle, Jol, jola, joley, joli, jolie, jolif, jolla, Jolle, Jolley, Jolleys, jollie, jol-ly, joln, joly, jool, jowly, Jull, julle, julli. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Jolly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "jolly" (pronounced jÄ"lē)
3-Ä" l ēbialy, Brolly, collie, Colly, Dolly, Folly, golly, holly, lolly, Mollie, Molly, poly, trolley, volley.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Jolly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "j-l-l-o-y"

-2 letters: joy.

-3 letters: jo, lo, oy, yo.

 Words containing the letters "j-l-l-o-y"
 

+2 letters: jollify, jollily, jollity, joltily, killjoy.

 

+3 letters: jollying, jovially, joyfully, killjoys.

 

+4 letters: jealously, jocularly, joyfuller, joylessly.

 

+5 letters: conjugally, jollifying, joyfullest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Cities
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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