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(adj) gay, merry, jovial, jocund, mirthful
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
(adv) moderately, passably, somewhat, middling, reasonably, pretty, fairly
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
(noun) jolly boat
a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
(verb) chaff, josh, kid, banter
be silly or tease one another
After we relaxed, we just kidded around