Usually means: Cheerful and full of happiness.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word Jolly:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. jolly: Merriam-Webster
  2. jolly, jolly, jolly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jolly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jolly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jolly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jolly, jolly: Wordnik
  7. jolly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Jolly, jolly: Wiktionary
  9. jolly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jolly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jolly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jolly, jolly: Dictionary.com
  13. jolly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jolly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jolly (disambiguation), Jolly (film), Jolly (group), Jolly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jolly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jolly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jolly: Rhymezone
  19. jolly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jolly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Jolly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. jolly: FreeDictionary.org
  23. jolly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. jolly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. jolly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jolly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jolly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jolly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. JOLLY: Acronym Finder
  2. jolly: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. jolly, jolly, jolly, jolly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jolly: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. jolly: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jolly: Gambling Glossary
  2. Jolly: Sports Definitions

(Note: See jollied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Jolly)

adjective:  Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry.
adjective:  (colloquial, dated) Splendid, excellent, pleasant.
adjective:  (informal) Drunk.
noun:  (UK, dated, often humorous) A pleasure trip or excursion.
noun:  (slang, dated) A marine in the English navy.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A word of praise, or favorable notice.
adverb:  (British, dated) very, extremely
verb:  (transitive) To amuse or divert.
verb:  (transitive, informal, archaic) To praise or talk up.
noun:  A female given name.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pike County, Georgia, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Newton County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  A minor city in Clay County, Texas, United States.
noun:  Short for jolly boat. [A type of ship's boat of the 17th to 19th centuries, used mainly to ferry personnel to and from the ship.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of Jouli, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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