as in joking
to make jokes
spent their nights around the campfire good-naturedly jollying and telling scary stories
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Last year, a seventeen-year-old boy in New Jersey allegedly drove his car into two teen-age girls, killing them both, after joking on a live stream about women getting raped by Tate.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026 -
Burke wasn’t joking, and quickly whisked Shimada up into a whirlwind of preparation on trying to sell Boise to the visiting entourage that included Japanese FA Director Naoki Tsumura.—
Shaun Goodwin
June 8,
Idaho Statesman,
8 June 2026
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“Jollying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jollying. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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