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1. Full of or showing high-spirited merriment
   "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"
   - gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful

1. [Brit] A happy party
    
2. A yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
   - jolly boat

1. Be silly or tease one another
   "After we relaxed, we just jollied around"
   - kid, chaff, josh, banter

1. To a moderately sufficient extent or degree
   "jolly decent of him"
   - reasonably, moderately, pretty, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably, middlingly, averagely

Derived forms: jollied, jollying, jollier, jolliest, jollies

See also: jolliness, joyous

Type of: bait, cod, party, rag, rally, razz [N. Amer], ride [N. Amer], tantalise [Brit], tantalize, taunt, tease, twit, yawl

Encyclopedia: Jolly, Philipp Johann Gustav von Jolly Jolly, Texas Jolly, TX