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Merry
Definitions
- 1 Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
"We had a very merry Christmas."
- 2 Festive and full of fun and laughter.
"Everyone was merry at the party."
- 3 Brisk
"The play moved along at a merry pace."
- 4 Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
"a merry jest"
- 5 drunk; tipsy euphemistic
"Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party."
- 1 quick and energetic wordnet
- 2 offering fun and gaiety wordnet
- 3 full of or showing high-spirited merriment wordnet
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a merry person.
- 2 A female given name from merry.
- 3 A diminutive of the female given name Mercy.
"'Is he handsome, Pa?' inquired the younger daughter. 'Silly Merry!' said the eldest: Merry being fond for Mercy. 'What is the premium, Pa? tell us that.'"
- 4 A diminutive of the male given name Meredith.
- 1 An English wild cherry.
Etymology
From Middle English mery, merie, mirie, myrie, murie, murȝe, from Old English meriġe, miriġe, myriġe, myreġe, myrġe (“pleasing, agreeable; pleasant, sweet, delightful; melodious”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgī (“short, slow, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short”). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry”), Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant, agreeable, joyful”), Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine”), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow”), Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”). Doublet of brief.
From French merise.
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