A very social and popular person. (French, joli.)
“Ali was jolly quiet at Ephesus before St. Paul came thither.”—John Trapp: Commentary (1656).
“For he’s a jolly good fellow [three times].
And so say all of us,
With a hip, hip, hip, hoora!”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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