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jolly

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jolly in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. be silly or tease one another
    "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
    kid  chaff  jolly  josh  banter 
adverb
  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"
    reasonably  moderately  pretty  jolly  somewhat  fairly  middling  passably  reasonably  moderately  pretty  jolly  somewhat  fairly  middling  passably 
adjective
  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"
    gay  jocund  jolly  jovial  merry  mirthful 
noun
  1. a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
    jolly boat  jolly 
  2. a happy party
    jolly 
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