Jolly vs Mirth - What's the difference?
jolly | mirth |
Full of high and merry spirits; jovial.
(British) a pleasure trip or excursion
To amuse or divert.
* The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.
* 1883 ,
*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 * 1912 , :
That which causes merriment.
* 1922 ,
As a proper noun jolly
is (female).As a noun mirth is
the emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.jolly
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Adjective
(er)Noun
(jollies)Derived terms
* jolly wellVerb
Derived terms
* jolly someone alongReferences
JOLLYin the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 15, p. 495. English degree adverbs ----
mirth
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Noun
(en noun)- And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
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- Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.
- Phantasmal mirth , folded away: muskperfumed.