jolly

neşeli, şen

Mutlu, şen ve eğlenceli.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Happy, cheerful, and full of fun.

• He is a jolly man.
• Everyone was in a jolly mood.
• We heard her jolly laugh from the kitchen.

Eş anlamlılar: cheerful, merry, happy

Zıt anlamlılar: gloomy, miserable

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: jolly person, jolly mood, jolly laugh

çok, pek

Bir niteliğin derecesini artırarak çok veya pek anlamı verir.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Very; used to make a description stronger.

• That was jolly good.
• It's jolly cold outside today.
• You know jolly well what I mean.

Eş anlamlılar: very, extremely, really

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: jolly good, jolly well, jolly nice

keyif gezisi, eğlence gezisi

Eğlenmek için yapılan, özellikle masrafını işverenin karşıladığı ve pek iş yapılmayan gezi.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A trip taken for enjoyment, especially one paid for by an employer and involving little real work.

• They went on a jolly.
• The conference seemed like an expensive jolly.
• Who paid for all those overseas jollies?

Nasıl kullanılır: on a jolly (The managers are on a jolly in Spain.)

Eş anlamlılar: pleasure trip, junket, outing

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: go on a jolly, a corporate jolly, another expensive jolly

joker

Dört normal kart grubuna ait olmayan, üzerinde komik bir karakter bulunan ek oyun kartı.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: The extra playing card that shows a funny character and is outside the four usual card groups.

• This pack includes a jolly.
• She drew the jolly from the deck.
• Remove both jollies before dealing the cards.

Eş anlamlılar: joker

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: draw a jolly, the jolly card, deal a jolly

joker

Oyunda başka herhangi bir kartın yerine kullanılabilen kart.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A playing card that can take the place of any other card in a game.

• Use the jolly as an ace.
• In this game, every two is a jolly.
• She completed her winning hand with two jollies.

Eş anlamlılar: wild card

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: use a jolly, play a jolly, jolly in something

neşelendirmek, eğlendirmek

Şaka yaparak veya sıcak davranarak birini daha mutlu hissettirmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To make someone feel happier by joking or being friendly.

• His jokes jollied us up.
• She jollied the children along during the wait.
• We spent the afternoon jollying him out of his gloomy mood.

Nasıl kullanılır: jolly someone along (She jollied him along with stories about their friends.); jolly someone up (We tried to jolly him up after the disappointing news.)

Eş anlamlılar: cheer up, amuse, entertain

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: jolly someone along, jolly someone up