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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jolly +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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

  • "Off with those absurd impediments to our vision, " said Boots, jollily, to her.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • I lived by a brook and the flowing of that brook stayed jollily in my heartbeat.

    Flows The Daily Growler 2006

  • "With all my heart," replied the cock; so they all four went on jollily together towards Bremen.

    Folk-lore and Legends: German Anonymous

  • 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

  • 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.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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