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jol en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /dʒəʊl/ (UK)

Etymology

Shortened from jolly?

Meanings

  1. (South-Africa, slang) A party.
    • I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women. 2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times:
    • —Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top. 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 249:

Forms

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jawl alternative lexicographic
jols Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “jol” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

jol en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /dʒəʊl/ (UK)

Etymology

Shortened from jolly?

Meanings

  1. (South-Africa, slang) To party.

Forms

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jolling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
jawl alternative lexicographic
jolled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
jolled Tense=Past lexicographic
jols Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

joller

Source: en.wiktionary, “jol” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

jol en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /dʒəʊl/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. (UK) A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.
    • An extensive, barren desert plateau, around 1,000-1,200 m in elevation, the jol, extends eastwards from Shabwa, dropping away northwards to the sands of the Rub al Khali. 2006, Masaa Al Jumaily, David P. Mallon, Abdul Karim Nasher, Nagi Thowabeh, “Status Report on Arabian Leopard in Yemen”, in Cat News, volume Special Volume 1, →ISSN, page 23:
    • The old crystalline hills of the ‘Asir and Yemen, which to the west drop in a series of steps to the Tihamah or coastal plain, are to the east overlain by near horizontal strata of sedimentary rocks of which the oldest are probably the sandstones forming the Kaukab plateau and the newest, excluding recent deposits, are the Eocene limestones of the jol, the succession seeming more complete in the north. 1953, D. G. Bunker, “The South-West Borderlands of the Rub' Al Khali”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 119, →DOI:

Forms

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jols Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

JOI · JO1

Synonyms

flatland · desert · plateau