Joy vs Jody - What's the difference?
joy | jody |
A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
* , chapter=10
, title= Anything that causes such a feeling.
* Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20
* Keats
(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
* Spenser
* Dryden
To feel joy, to rejoice.
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*:for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god
*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
*:I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.
(archaic) To enjoy.
*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.2:
*:For from the time that Scudamour her bought, / In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day.
*Milton
*:Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
(obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
*Dryden
*:Joy us of our conquest.
*Prior
*:To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
(obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
*Shakespeare
*:Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
A diminutive of Judith or Jo, also used as a formal female given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Joe or Joseph, also used as a formal male given name.
A male civilian who romances a military man's wife or girlfriend in his absence.
* {{quote-book, title=Camp all-American, Hanoi Jane, and the high-and-tight, page=31, author=Carol Burke, year=2004, passage=Even today in the Marine Corps or the Army, one calls a jody, not a marching chant. For the trainee, Jody is the clever civilian who brutally divorces the soldier from the civilian world by appropriating all his possessions and loved ones.
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English diminutives of female given names
English diminutives of male given names
As a proper noun joy
is .As a noun jody is
a jody call.joy
English
(wikipedia joy)Noun
- a child's joy on Christmas morning
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
- Ye are our glory and joy .
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
- The roofs with joy resound.
Antonyms
* (feeling of happiness) infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoyDerived terms
* bundle of joy * cocky's joy * enjoy * joyance * joyful * joygasm * joyless * joyous * joy ride * joystick * jump for joy * killjoy * no joy * overjoy * traveller's joy * unjoyVerb
(en verb)Statistics
*jody
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Alternative forms
* (female given name) Jodi, JodieProper noun
(en proper noun)Noun
(Jodies)- Ain't no use in callin home. Jody''s on your telephone. / Ain't no use in lookin' back. / '''Jody''''s got you Cadillac. / Ain't no use in goin' home. / '''Jody''''s got your girl and gone. / Ain't no use in feelin' blue. / ' Jody' s got your sister too.}}