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jollily, adv.|ˈdʒɒlɪlɪ|
Forms: see jolly a.; also 4 ioliflich, iolely.
[f. jolly a. + -ly2.]
In a jolly manner.
1. Cheerfully, gaily, merrily, jovially; † spiritedly, gallantly, boldly, insolently (obs.).
13..K. Alis. 4753 (4737) Who þat haþ trewe amye Ioliflich he may hym in here afyȝe. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 99 Redi..to werre jolily aȝenst cristene men. c1420Anturs of Arth. xxxix, So iolyly thes gentille iustede one were. 1547Hooper Answ. Gardiner's Bk. X. iv, Lord, I knew thy trewthe, and Iolyly pratyd of the same. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 36 b, Wherein you triumph so Iollylye. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. vi. Wks. (1847) 560/1 Sitting jollily at dinner. 1788Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 200 Having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily. 1865Kingsley Herew. ix, Baldwin was silent, thinking and smiling jollily.
†2. Amorously; licentiously. Obs.
c1400Rom. Rose 7031 Prelat lyuyng iolily Or prest that halt his quene hym by.
†3. Finely, handsomely, gaily. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce ix. 201 Men arayit Iolely. 1426Audelay Poems 16 He is a gentylmon and jolyle arayd. a1640Peacham in Ellis Spec. Eng. Poets II. (R.), Their heads full jollily they dight.
4. Excellently, splendidly; finely; delightfully. Now slang or colloq.
c1563Jack Jugler in 4 Old Plays (1848) 34 You wold pommile him ioylile a-bout the pate. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. ix. (1713) 113 You come off jollily, methinks,..apologizing thus in the general. a1822Shelley tr. Faust ii. 23, I see one yonder burning jollily. 1878M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. ix. 117 When one meets nice people and gets on jollily with them. |