jolly well
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You jolly well deserved it."
- "We never had a Christmas in the country before. It was simply ripping. And […] we had games and charades, and hide-and-seek, and Devil in the Dark, which is a game girls pretend to like, and very few do really, and crackers and a Christmas-tree for the village children, and everything you can jolly well think of."
- ""Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident."
- "Adrian thought it worth while trying out his new slang. […] ‘That’s beastly talk, Thompson. Jolly well take it back or expect a good scragging.’"
- "For most main lines, that's one or two extra trains every hour. "We jolly well ought to be able to encompass that on a lot of lines," he suggests."