Navigation
23 users online :: 23 Guests and 0 Registered
Records in this category
- jack
- Jack bird
- Jack Brush
- jack bush
- jack dawl
- jack fish
- Jack Spaniard
- jack up
- jack-in-the-box
- jack-o'-lantern
- jackmada
- jacknife fish
- Jacko
- jackstone
- Jacob's ladder
- Jah
- Jah-lion
- jail
- jalbry prickle
- jam (1)
- jam (2)
- jam up
- Jamaica apple
- Jamaica cherry
- Jamaica grape
- Jamaica man
- Jamaica vine
- jamming music
- Janirary, Janiwary, Janivary, Janury
- jar (1)
- jar (2)
- jaw-bone
- jaw-bone breaker
- jay
- jazz
- JC Mosquito
- jebim
- jelly
- jelly okra
- Jenerat
- jenny
- Jerusalem bush
- Jerusalem catnit
- jessamin
- Jesus, Jesus Christ, or Christ
- jewelries
- jezz
- jibdog
- jig up
- jimbay
- jinjy
- jinny
- jitney
- jittimy
- jive
- job depression
- jock
- Joe Bucks
- Joe Frigby
- Joe Sanky crab, Joe crab
- Joe Seegry
- Joe tree, Joe wood, Joe bush
- John
- John Brown
- John Canoe
- John Crow
- John DeMott
- John Doctor
- John Fighting
- John Mott, John DeMott
- Johnny cake
- Johnny Cutlass
- Johnny Hill cassava
- Johnny walkers
- joke
- joke-box
- jokey, jokitty, jokitive
- jook, juck, juke
- Joseph's coat
- joy
- juck
- jucking off
- juggle
- juice
- juju (1)
- juju (2)
- jumbay, jumbie
- jumby
- jump up
- jump-in dance, jumpin' dance
- jumper
- jumper church
- jumper service
- jumping jack
- jumpy
- June fish
- junjo
- junk
- Junkanoo face
- Junkanoo, John Canoe
- junks
- just
- just like how.
- just now
- jute-box
Tags
Definitions starting with J
ID #4780
joy
[OED, exultation of spirit] n. spirit, enthusiasm: 1936 Canada ain got no Empire joy (Dupuch 88). 'Lection come t' eart' agen an' 'Brilan' gone wild wid d' politic joy (idem 95). (San Sal., Mayag.)
Tags: noun
Related entries: -
Last update: 2011-06-01 18:01
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
You can comment on this entry. We are especially interested in where you may have heard this word and who you may have heard use this term or specific usage of this word.
Please give example sentences.
Start comment!