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jolly   (TTS Sound)

The noun jolly has 2 senses

• jolly -- (a happy party)


• jolly boat, jolly -- (a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work)

The verb jolly has 1 sense

• kid, chaff, jolly, josh, banter -- (be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around")

The adj jolly has 1 sense

• gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful -- (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")

The adv jolly has 1 sense

• reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably -- (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")