Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a jolly manner; gaily; merrily; mirthfully.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a jolly manner.
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- adverb In a
jolly manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here was the Major feeling lonely as regards his Christmas evening: here was she delighted that he should not spend it "jollily" with Captain Puffin ... and there was plenty of plum-pudding.
Miss Mapp 1903
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"Off with those absurd impediments to our vision, " said Boots, jollily, to her.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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I lived by a brook and the flowing of that brook stayed jollily in my heartbeat.
Flows The Daily Growler 2006
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"With all my heart," replied the cock; so they all four went on jollily together towards Bremen.
Folk-lore and Legends: German Anonymous
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The meeting of the chums, that had started off so jollily, was now a session of indignation.
Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck Allen Chapman
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The shearers this year were a band of forty or so Mexicans from Uvalde and other border towns, jollily travelling two hundred miles up the country in charge of a _capitan_ and _grande capitan_ responsible fellows, who had contracted with the ranchmen of the neighborhood to do their shearing.
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In some future Number we will relate how jollily we fare in our new abode.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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He declares, positively, that he knows nothing so easy of digestion as a canvas-back duck; and he eats away jollily up to his assertion.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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She laughed, jollily, at the recollection, and pressed a cheesecake on Toni with a heartiness there was no resisting.
The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes
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The crew of the Goede Vrouw being soon reinforced by fresh importations from Holland, the settlement went jollily on, increasing in magnitude and prosperity.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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