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Definition of Jollier
1. one who puts others in a good humor [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jollier
Literary usage of Jollier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Desk-book of Errors in English, Including Notes on Colloquialisms and by Frank H. Vizetelly (1920)
"To join issue is prop- e^ly "to take opposite sides of a case," etc. jollier :
A slang term used to designate a person who treats another (from whom he ..."
2. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most (1878)
"... He froth'd his bumpers to the brim ; A jollier year we shall not see. But though
his eyes are waxing dim, And though his foes speak ill of him, ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1887)
"He was jolly on the holiest day in summer and on the wettest day in spring; but
in winter he was jollier than ever. Particularly jolly was he one tingling ..."
4. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"Express, for nothing goes: We spectres are a jollier crew We spectres are a
jollier crew Than you, perhaps, suppose ! Ha! ha! SONG.—SIR RODERIC. ..."
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