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jollies along

jollies along is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jolly along.

Meaning of jolly along

Verb

jolly along (third-person singular simple present jollies along, present participle jollying along, simple past and past participle jollied along)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To keep (someone) happy or compliant, as by encouragement or flattery.
    • When there was a shipping delay, the salesman jollied the purchasing agent along to keep him from canceling the order.

Questions about jollies along

What is jollies along the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Jollies along is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jolly along.

Words near jollies along in the dictionary

  1. jolleys
  2. jollied
  3. jollied along
  4. jollier
  5. jollies
  6. jollies along
  7. jolliest
  8. Jolliff
  9. Jolliffe
  10. jolliffeite
  11. Jolliffes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jollies along (page history and authors); jolly along (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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