See jol in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Shortened from jolly?",
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},
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"ref": "2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times:",
"text": "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.",
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"(South Africa, slang) A party."
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"ref": "1953, D. G. Bunker, “The South-West Borderlands of the Rub' Al Khali”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 119, →DOI:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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"A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula."
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"(UK) A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula."
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},
{
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},
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"text": "—Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.",
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"ref": "2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times:",
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