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.

Definition

For person to enjoy or celebrate

Verb

1. Google Kribi beach na joint to jolly for Cameroon  — (bbc__54594, __ Google Kribi Beach is a bar to enjoy__)

   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, __But it seems that in Lagos, Boxing Day is a day to celebrate in the beaches in the city__)

Derived forms

1. Jolly jolly

for person to enjoy person self

1. 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__)

   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__)

Synonyms

• celebrate 0.63 507, chill 0.57 40

Antonyms

• sweat 0.57 37, suffer

Translations

• English: celebrate, enjoy