jollyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɒli/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɑli/
• 韻: -ɒli
• ハイフネーション: jol‧ly

形容詞

jolly (comparative jollier, superlative jolliest)

1. Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, , stanzas xi-xii:

     "Full jolly Knight he seemed […] full large of limb and every joint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point."

   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Hart-Leap Well, Part Second:

     "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is curst. ..."

   • 1819, Washington Irving, “The Stage Coach”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.:

     […] he is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors […]

2. (colloquial, dated) Splendid, excellent, pleasant.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 16, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     Jo silently notices how white and small her hand is and what a jolly servant she must be to wear such sparkling rings.

3. (informal) Drunk.

派生語

名詞

jolly (plural jollies)

1. (UK, dated, often humorous) A pleasure trip or excursion.
   • 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian‎:

     If you know what it means to be a “fidlet” going for a “jolly” in your “doo”, then you are part of an exclusive club that speaks colloquial Antarctic English.

2. (slang, dated) A marine in the English navy.

   Synonym: joey

   • 1896, Rudyard Kipling, Soldier an' Sailor Too:

     I'm a Jolly — 'Er Majesty's Jolly — soldier an' sailor too!

3. (slang, archaic) A word of praise, or favorable notice.
   • 2021, Jenni Spangler, The Incredible Talking Machine:

     'We just need to chuck him a jolly.'
     'I beg your pardon?' said Faber.
     'Chuck a jolly... you know! Get people on the street talking about how amazing the show is! Tell them the tickets are sold out for the next two weeks.'

4. Ellipsis of jolly boat.
   • 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     Indeed it is nearly impossible to conceive how the small jolly they were in could have escaped destruction for a single instant.

派生語

• jollyful

副詞

jolly (comparative more jolly, superlative most jolly)

1. (British, dated) very, extremely

   It’s jolly hot in here, isn’t it?

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:

     Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’

動詞

jolly (third-person singular simple present jollies, present participle jollying, simple past and past participle jollied)

1. (transitive) To amuse or divert.
2. (transitive, informal, archaic) To praise or talk up.
   • 1898, Marketing/Communications, volume 23, page 52:

     I do not believe in 'jollying' and 'soft soaping' a man when his work is really bad.

派生語

参照

• Jolly in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 15, p. 495.