Word Meanings - JOLLIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A merrymaking; noisy festivity. We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to JOLLIFICATION)

• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• NOISY
  1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• JOLLIFICATION
  A merrymaking; noisy festivity. We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• TOGETHER
  togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
• FESTIVITY
  1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd. 2. A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• ALTOGETHER
  1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• INFESTIVITY
  Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.