jolly

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Editorial note

We used to think of him as jolly but affably mushy in the head.

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a happy party

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noun

a happy party

noun

a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work

verb

be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jolly.

noun

a happy party

noun

a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work

verb

be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

adjective

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"

See also: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful

adverb

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"

Example sentences

We used to think of him as jolly but affably mushy in the head.

Let's all pat ourselves on the back with a fluffy blog post about how jolly wonderful we are.

"If may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present.

Because it is jolly difficult to build something up but it is very easy to ruin it.

If you get sexually assaulted or the car falls apart then by gum, you just won't use that firm again and you'll give them a jolly poor review!

"A jolly good idea until you realize that a bug in iOS/iCloud means that when you delete an app's iCloud storage "bin", it cannot be recreated by that app, ever again.

So that is all jolly good, except that by using lightheartedness and parody as a standard PR tool, now it is not easily differentiated from other parody out there.

Now when there is some international jolly, or what ever, US requests for insane amounts of comic book, sunglasses wearing, gun toting SS to be allowed free armed reign may well be met with a lot more skepticism.

If only they'd completely gone for broke, throwing caution to the wind, it would have worked!The bias towards only seeing the good in these techniques made it jolly difficult to choose between them when they offered contradictory advice.

I especially enjoyed Mary Midgley's quote: "I wrote no books until I was a good 50, and I'm jolly glad because I didn't know what I thought before thenI wonder how many of these folks were "big thinkers" just without the proper stimulus?