jolly.

Who Marie was she could not tell, save that 'twas somebody who once took care of her and called her jolly.

Darkness and Daylight Mary Jane Holmes 1866

Only now people will be less inclined to describe me as "jolly."

The Speculist: It's a New Phil, Week 19 2006

Fond of all common pleasures and enjoyments, he was any thing but an austere man or a bigot; for he was hearty, genial, and even "jolly."

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

Biddy had not understood the meaning of these things; she had only wearily noticed that the little girl was pretty, and not at all like her, and that the flowers and greens were "jolly."

Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

As for Horace Jackson himself, his impression concerning the younger members of the Wilder family was that they were decidedly "jolly."

Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping Theodore P. Wilson

I could wish, indeed, that I was the 'jolly good fellow' you have said, but as I look at you I confess I am anything but 'jolly.'

To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today Ralph Connor 1898

Dearest H —, I am tired with my journey, but very fairly well; to-morrow, I have no doubt that I shall be quite "jolly."

Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

But the book as a whole is, despite or because of its tragic quality, almost impossibly "jolly."

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

I've heard this little lady spoken of as 'Jolly Molly,' and you must make it your business that not one day of her coming summer with us shall be anything save 'jolly.'

Dorothy on a Ranch Evelyn Raymond 1876

The picture of perfect health and entire good humor, and were we to sum up her appearance in a word, it would be "jolly."

The Female Agitators Staff 1871