merry

Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.

We had a very merry Christmas.

I am neuer merry when I heare ſweet muſique.

Festive and full of fun and laughter.

Everyone was merry at the party.

If I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff pay right well for that which he hath done to me. Maybe I may bring him some time into Sherwood Forest and have him to a right merry feast with us.

Brisk

The play moved along at a merry pace.

The car moved at a merry clip.

Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.

a merry jest

There eke my feeble barke a while may ſtay, / Till mery wynd and weather call her thence away.

drunk; tipsy

Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.

An English wild cherry.

A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a merry person.

A female given name from merry.

A diminutive of the female given name Mercy.

'Is he handsome, Pa?' inquired the younger daughter. 'Silly Merry!' said the eldest: Merry being fond for Mercy. 'What is the premium, Pa? tell us that.'

It was on account of she had such a happy temperament I persuaded Mr. van der Most to let me call her Merry. Lots of folks, when they first meet her, they think she's called Mary - Maria, as you would say it, Signor Lumaca - but no, her name is really Merry, M-E-double-R-Y, because, I always tell them, she is.

A diminutive of the male given name Meredith.