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More like St. Nicholas
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jollier
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Word definitions in 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 ] [also: jollied , jolliest , jollier ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativejolly)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] Full of life and mirth; jovial; ...
Usage examples of jollier.
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.
He was still fat and bespectacled, and there was already a stain of some kind on his white waistcoat, A DANGEROUS FORTUNE 239 but he was jollier than ever and, Hugh immediately sensed, happier too.
Devil has quite a few points in his favor, and is no doubt a much jollier fellow to be with than his dour Opponent in Heaven.
All the same, it would have been much jollier just taking hands by themselves somewhere, and saying out before God what they really felt--because, after all, God was everything, everywhere, not only in stuffy churches.
Others led little groups of laymen in prayer or hymns of praise to Phos, forming islets of dignity and deep faith in the jollier, more frivolous throng.
And it is not to be recovered in this sense again that, while we are certainly jollier than the pagans, and much more right than the pagans, there is not one of us who can, by the utmost stretch of energy, be so sensible as the pagans.
I think it was much jollier to happen like a book, and it shows what a nice man the Uncle is, the way he did it all.
We had ours on plates to take away into another sitting-room, which was much jollier than sitting round the table with the grown-ups.
But that only made it all the jollier in the warm, bright rooms, full of happy souls.
It was only Ned Hermanmann, fatter, bronder-faced, jollier looking than ever.
Why does it seem a much jollier place than my flat in Gloucester Road under the strict rule of She Who Must Be Obeyed?
Cluve cracked careless jokes with one and all on the flop of the search, showed not a sign of uneasiness nor of suspicion that Scott knew anything, still gave him most - favoured - guest treatment and was a jollier old soldier with him than ever.
All of them had their particular assistants, the nobblers and buttoners, the sweeteners and jolliers.