jolly

Naija

Alternative forms

• celebrate 0.63 507, jolli 0.62 84, perform 0.61 298, hustle 0.60 171, busy 0.60 69, queue 0.58 48, sweat 0.57 37, chill 0.57 40, wells 0.57 14

Etymology

Borrowed from English jolly

Pronunciation

• dʒɔ̀lí

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 73
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2548

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Adverb

jolly: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:48)

   Na jolly jolly dance for a clan wey far.  — (katakata__657, __no translation__)

   Wetin dey their mind pass na jolly jolly.  — (jw__44255, __no translation__)

2. case (frequency:5)

   Google Kribi beach na joint to jolly for Cameroon  — (bbc__54594, __no translation__)

   But e be like say for Lagos Nigeria, Boxing Day for some people na to jolly for di many beach dem wey dey di city.  — (bbc__22534, __no translation__)

3. advmod (frequency:5)

   Wetin dey their mind pass na jolly jolly.  — (jw__44255, __no translation__)

   I don employ security for my rams' Free train ride for Eid-el-Kabir jolly' jolly  — (bbc__8930, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• celebrate 0.63 507, jolli 0.62 84, perform 0.61 298, hustle 0.60 171, busy 0.60 69, queue 0.58 48, sweat 0.57 37, chill 0.57 40, wells 0.57 14

Antonymes

• celebrate 0.63 507, jolli 0.62 84, perform 0.61 298, hustle 0.60 171, busy 0.60 69, queue 0.58 48, sweat 0.57 37, chill 0.57 40, wells 0.57 14

Translations

• English: no definition

Verb

jolly: to celebrate -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   As you see us so, we dey go jolly so o.  — no translation

2. mark (frequency:3)

   Di thing just dey give me, e just dey make my body to dey jolly.  — (ENU_14_I-Like-Dance-Well-Well_M__39, The thing is just giving me...it's just making all my body to be happy.)

   Afta di Abuja jaw-jaw, Macron, wey be di youngest France president for history, fly go Lagos to jolly for di New Afrika Shrine.  — (bbc__12849, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• celebrate 0.63 507, jolli 0.62 84, perform 0.61 298, hustle 0.60 171, busy 0.60 69, queue 0.58 48, sweat 0.57 37, chill 0.57 40, wells 0.57 14

Antonymes

• celebrate 0.63 507, jolli 0.62 84, perform 0.61 298, hustle 0.60 171, busy 0.60 69, queue 0.58 48, sweat 0.57 37, chill 0.57 40, wells 0.57 14

Translations

• English: to celebrate