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cheery, a.|ˈtʃɪərɪ|
[f. cheer n.1 + -y1. More colloquial than cheerful: in Johnson's opinion ‘a ludicrous word’.]
1. Abounding in cheerfulness; in excellent spirits, lively.
1611Cotgr., s.v. Lie, To say a thing with a merrie countenance, cheerie visage, looke full of glee. 1664Pepys Diary 5 Apr., I find him pretty cheery over what he was yesterday. 1767Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) III. 209 The Corporal, with cheery eye. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 89 She had..a stout cheery farmer for a husband. 1869Trollope He Knew xxvi. (1878) 144 Endeavouring to speak..in a cheery voice. 1875Mrs. Randolph W. Hyacinth I. 95 You will be in a cheerier mood to-morrow.
2. Such as to cheer or enliven; cheering.
c1720Gay Pastoral v, Come, let us hie, and quaff a cheery bowl. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. III. 175 She was..a kind of cheery sunshine in those otherwise Egyptian days.
3. Comb., as cheery-hearted, cheery-looking, cheery-voiced adjs.
1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton II. iii. 49 Her father was a cheery-hearted man.
1954J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. ix. 165 A cheery-looking hobbit.
a1892Whittier Poet. Wks. (1898) 55/2, I can see his sickle gleaming, Cheery-voiced, can hear him teaming. 1913Masefield Daffodil Fields 68 The wren upon the tree-stump carolled cheery-voiced. |