JOL'LY, a.
1. Merry; gay; lively; full of life and mirth; jovial. It expresses more life and noise than cheerful; as a jolly troop of huntsmen.[It is seldom applied in colloquial usage to respectable company. We rarely say of respectable persons, they are jolly. It is applied to the young and the vulgar.]
2. Expressing mirth or inspiring it. And with his jolly pipe delights the groves. The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors.3. Exciting mirth and gayety; as jolly May.4. Like one in high health; pretty.