Definitions

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  • noun South Africa, slang party
  • verb South Africa, slang to party

Etymologies

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Shortened from jolly?

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Examples

  • The debate is scheduled for an hour followed by a reception, described by one SACP office-bearer as a "jol".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Reports in the media that long-term prisoners had been allowed to relax at Sun City and "jol" on the Cape Flats over the festive season, caused danger lights to flicker and placed the onus on the government to take urgent action, De Ville said in a statement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Reports in the media that long-term prisoners had been allowed to relax at Sun City and "jol" on the Cape Flats over the festive season, caused danger lights to flicker and placed the onus on the government to take urgent action, De Ville said in a statement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Comical since that is exactly what we have been doing in all aspects of life calling an object by multiple names and claiming one was more correct over the other like water, jol and pani, per say.

    Bangladesh - History relived 2008

  • Desmond Tutu's "Rainbow People" could live and jol together.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_

    Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood

  • Adonis-in-bag adjusted his polished all-rounder with a delicately gloved finger, and declared that the painter was "a jol-ly fel-low."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

  • I seem to hear the old fellow's voice now, with its quaint accent, the "jollia leetle dinnera" and the "jol-lia leetle talka," with his half-childish-sounding vowel at the end of almost every word.

    In Direst Peril David Christie Murray

  • But, as Lesiba Seshoka of the National Union of Mineworkers notes, they tended to be aware that a jol costs money.

    IOL: News 2010

  • You'll find flying fish, cou cou (a polenta-like dish of cornmeal and okra), fish cakes, bul jol (a seasoned dish of shredded salt fish), souse (pickled pork) and pepper pot.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

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  • jol or jorl... a south african slang word, which means... to go out, to party, to dance

    June 23, 2009

  • are you going to jol with us tonight. did you jol last night. let go for a jol. we had such a jol. she's such a jol!

    June 23, 2009