Crossword clues for jolly
jolly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Jolly \Jol"ly\ (j[o^]l"l[y^]), n.; pl. Jollies (j[o^]l"l[i^]z). [Prob. fr. Jolly,
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] A marine in the English navy. [Sailor's Slang]
I'm a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too!
--Kipling.
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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Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.
Like a jolly troop of huntsmen.
--Shak.``A jolly place,'' said he, ``in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.''
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Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.
And with his jolly pipe delights the groves.
--Prior.Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear.
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Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant. ``A jolly cool wind.''
--Sir T. North. [Now mostly colloq.]Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit.
--Spenser.The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions.
--W. Irving.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300 (late 13c. as a surname), from Old French jolif "festive, merry, amorous, pretty" (12c.) of uncertain origin (cognate with Italian giulivo "merry, pleasant").\n
\nPerhaps a Germanic loan-word from a source akin to Old Norse jol "a winter feast" (see yule), or from Latin gaudere "to rejoice," from PIE *gau- "to rejoice" (see joy). For loss of -f, compare tardy, hasty. Related: Jollily; jolliness.
Wiktionary
Full of high and merry spirits; jovial. adv. (context British dated English) very, extremely n. 1 (cx British dated English) A pleasure trip or excursion. 2 (cx slang dated English) A marine in the English navy. v
(context transitive English) To amuse or divert.
WordNet
n. a happy party
a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work [syn: jolly boat]
adv. used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him" [syn: pretty]
adj. 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, jovial, merry, mirthful]
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Wikipedia
Jolly is an Italian record company founded in 1958 by Walter Guertler.
From 1958 to 1970, Jolly published records of most of the famous Italian singers as Adriano Celentano, Enzo Jannacci, Fausto Leali, Nicola Di Bari, Luigi Tenco, Ennio Morricone, Tony Dallara, Franco Battiato, Cochi e Renato, and Gabriella Ferri, to mention few.
Jolly was the first Italian record company to publish an economic line of products (Joker), and one of the first ones to acquire the rights of distribution in Italy of foreign brands like Disques Vogue ( Petula Clark, Françoise Hardy...), Mercury Records and Atlantic Records.
Category:Italian record labels Category:Record labels established in 1958
Jolly is a synonym for happiness.
Jolly may also refer to:
Jolly is a 1998 Tamil Drama film directed by Dilipkumar and produced by R. B. Choudary. The film features an ensemble cast of Abbas, Keerthi Reddy, Kausalya, Livingston and Kushboo in the leading roles, while S. P. Balasubramaniam and Janagaraj also appear in supporting roles. The film was released to a mixed response in May 1998.
Jolly is an American progressive metal/ alternative metal band from New York City, also known as The Incredible Jolly.
Usage examples of "jolly".
Next day the Baron technically did give Granny Aching gold, but it was only the gold-coloured foil on an ounce of Jolly Sailor, the cheap and horrible pipe tobacco that was the only one Granny Aching would ever smoke.
Granny Aching for all the gold in the world, but you could definitely attract her attention with an ounce of Jolly Sailor.
From forwards, a well-muffled observer could make out the jolly boat ahead with the ancipital rowers straining as they pulled the warship out of harbour.
On the wide, shadowless, aseptic surface of the table the raincoat looked out of place, like some jolly, seedy old tramp who has strayed into an operating theatre.
This turned out to be a jolly affair, more like a braaivleis and singsong and I tried hard to be cheerful, for I suspect it was held as a gesture and as a bit of a cheer-up for me.
They were, says Mr Stephen, and the end was that the men of the island seeing no help was toward, as the ungrate women were all of one mind, made a wherry raft, loaded themselves and their bundles of chattels on shipboard, set all masts erect, manned the yards, sprang their luff, heaved to, spread three sheets in the wind, put her head between wind and water, weighed anchor, ported her helm, ran up the jolly Roger, gave three times three, let the bullgine run, pushed off in their bumboat and put to sea to recover the main of America.
It came to me that I might find Jolly, and that I might take him back to Kavasphir only to find that our home, Temple Huacho, had been lost: fallen to ruins at the hands of some cessant cult, or washed away by the silver, and all that we loved in this world gone.
I had enough bread for months of joyful leisure, for cruising, beachcombing, getting- happily plotzed with good friends, disporting with the trim little jolly sandy-rumped beach kittens, slaying gutsy denizens of the deep blue, and slipping the needle into every phony who happened into my path.
We do know that Gabbing Dick went to The Jolly Pirate, but left shortly before nine with two men.
So when I arrived home after that jolly jail Chautauqua, Bob Maelstorm, Abe Gingivitis, and Tom Florissant were camped on my portal all bloated up like bullfrogs in mating season because a few moments ago they had formed The Committee to Save Willow Road.
The man in his dashing Glengarry cap and his somewhat shabby gray suit took on one arm the plain, jolly woman who seemed to be his wife, and on the other, the amiable, handsome young girl who looked enough like him to be his sister, and strode rapidly back and forth, saying that they must get up an appetite for breakfast.
While we were talking, the jolly Englishman made some witty comments on my eagerness to convince him that he had not enjoyed M.
Then they had come here together, the ancient traveler in the middle holding both of the hobbling locals up, feeling quite jolly and youthful in spite of himself.
Last time I was there she used to let out six Egyptian jerboas in the drawing-room every evening after dinner, awfully jolly little beggars, like miniature kangaroos.
This boy was red-haired, freckle-faced and snub-nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.