Definition of Jolly

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Definition of Jolly

Jolly

Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.

Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.

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.

A marine in the English navy.

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Jolly Quotations

It 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. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
Shia LaBeouf

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
Mary Wesley

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
Georg Brandes

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
Sally Quinn

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!
Louise Jameson

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
Charlotte Rampling

Jolly Translations

jolly in German is burschikose
jolly in Norwegian is morsom, veldig, lystig
jolly in Spanish is jovial

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