jollying

as injovial
as ininveigle
as injest
as injoke
as inkid
as inpush
as inridicule
as incajole
as inchaff
as insweet-talk
as intwit
as inderide
as infawn
as inflatter

Synonyms for jollying

adj happy

Antonyms for jollying

Word Origin & History

c.1300 (late 13c. as a surname), from Old French jolif "festive, merry, amorous, pretty" (12c.) of uncertain origin (cf. Italian giulivo "merry, pleasant").

Perhaps a Germanic loan-word from a source akin to Old Norse jol "a winter feast" (see yule), or from Latin gaudere "to rejoice," from PIE *gau- "to rejoice" (see joy). For loss of -f, cf. tardy, hasty. Related: Jollily; jolliness.

Example Sentences for jollying

I was jollying him along—we were in the trolley, going to Endbury.

Oh, let up with the jollying, and lets hear the news, suggested Phil.

It's no use your wasting my time or me wasting yours in jollying.

And he gave me a kind of a push, you know, just as if he was jollying me.

I said, Will you stop your jollying and tell us what happened?

Nor was he in the least the jollying, bandying person the younger ladies were familiar with.

Er—I see by the papers you've been jollying the clergy, Mr. Plank.

He's been jollying me about that cribbing for the last two weeks.

There is really only one way of getting on with them, and that's jollying them.

Of course, Roy knows that; he's only jollying when he calls it a good turn.

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