Jolly

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 \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, 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, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
   Population (2000):    188
   Housing Units (2000): 73
   Land area (2000):     0.985659 sq. miles (2.552844 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.985659 sq. miles (2.552844 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            37924
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             33.874304 N, 98.348556 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Jolly, TX
    Jolly
    

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