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jolly up

/ˈdʒɒli ʌp/

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verb

/ˈdʒɒli ʌp/C1formalbritish
  • ruФразовый глагол, означающий поднять настроение, оживить или сделать что-то более живым и праздничным, часто используется в неформальном британском английском.

A phrasal verb meaning to cheer up, enliven, or make something more lively or festive, often used in informal British English.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. To make more cheerfulinformalbritish

    To make someone or something more lively, cheerful, or festive.

    ruВзбодрить

    • We need to jolly up the party with some music.
    • She tried to jolly up her friend after the bad news.
    • The decorations really jollied up the room.

    Synonymsbuoy upcheer upenlivengladdenliven upperk up

    Antonymsdejectdepressdiscouragedisheartensadden

Forms
  • jollied up past participle
  • jollied up past simple
  • jollying up present participle
  • jollies up third person singular

Base verbjolly

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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