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Dictionary definition for: Jolly

1. (n) a happy party

2. (v) be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

3. (s) 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"

4. (r) used as an intensifier (`jolly" is used informally in Britain) "pretty big" "pretty bad" "jolly decent of him"

5. (n) a yawl used by a ship''s sailors for general work

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