MERRY

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merry¹ I. adjectiv

1. vesel, voios, bine dispus, jovial; fericit;

to make merry a se distra, a petrece;

to make merry over smb. a petrece pe socoteala cuiva, a-şi bate joc de cineva;

the more the merrier cu cât vor fi mai mulţi, cu atât va fi mai vesel.

2. (înv.) plăcut, agreabil, atrăgător.

3. glumeţ, comic; caraghios, ridicol.

4. sarcastic.

5. (fam.) cherchelit, pilit, cu chef, uşor ameţit, ciupit.

merry¹ II. verb A. intranzitiv

a fi fericit.

merry¹ II. verb B. tranzitiv

a face fericit.

merry² substantiv

(bot.) cireş-păsăresc / sălbatic (Prunus avium).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The feast was grand; they danced and sang; all were merry; and I only wish that you and I had been of the party.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

All a-doin' well, your patients was—all well and merry.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Theodore, do you remember those merry days?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

How merry we shall be together when we meet!

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

It was settled that there should be a dance in the evening, and that every body should be extremely merry all day long.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

The kind, brown eyes looked as if they could be stern, and though he was unusually merry, she fancied he had found her out, but didn't mean to let her know it.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

So we must be as merry as we can, that she may not be dwelling upon such gloomy things.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

How cheery, too, to see at one side of the shining grate my father with his pipe and his merry red face, and on the other my mother with her fingers ever turning and darting with her knitting-needles!

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, clerk, if you would see your brother you must on, for there is a meeting to-day, and his merry men will await him ere the shadows turn from west to east. I pray you not to hold him back, for it would be an evil thing if all the stout lads were there and the leader a-missing.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The story of my supposed appetite getting wind among the outside passengers, they were merry upon it likewise; and asked me whether I was going to be paid for, at school, as two brothers or three, and whether I was contracted for, or went upon the regular terms; with other pleasant questions.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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