Obs. [irreg. alteration of next; ? after gallantry, pleasantry, etc.] = JOLLITY 1, 2.
c. 1685[?]. Debtford Plumb Cake, in Bagford Ball. (1876), 72. Mark I pray what came to pass, which spoiled their jollitry.
1732. Gentleman Instr. (ed. 10), 537 (D.). To strain jollitry not into annual … but into a daily madness.
1736. Lediard, Life Marlborough, I. 273. The officers were celebrating the Festival … in Mirth and Jollitry.
