All jollying synonyms

verb jollying

• allure — to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract
• bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
• bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
• butter — Butter is a soft yellow substance made from cream. You spread it on bread or use it in cooking.
• coax — If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
• ensnare — Catch in or as in a trap.
• honey — a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
• toll — the act of tolling a bell.
• egg on — to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
• lead on — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
• rope in — a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
• soften up — make softer
• string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• gird — to gibe or jeer at; taunt.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
• quip — a clever or witty remark or comment.
• spoof — a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
• put on — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
• frolic — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
• gambol — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
• jape — to jest; joke; gibe.
• jest — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• pun — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
• revel — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
• sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• wisecrack — a smart or facetious remark.
• horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
• kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• cozen — to cheat or trick (someone)
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• make fun of — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
• make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
• press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
• pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
• speed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.