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jol^¹

/dʒəʊl/ UK

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Shortened from jolly?

noun jols · jawl

South Africa, slang A party. —Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.

verb jols · jolling · jolled · jawl

South Africa, slang To party.

jol^²

/dʒəʊl/ UK

noun jols

UK A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula. 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
Similar: desert, plateau, flatland

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@misc{jol_2026,
  title = {jol},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jol},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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