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merriment

noun
/ˈmɛɹimɪnt/US

Etymology

From merry + -ment.

  1. inherited from *mréǵʰus✻
  2. inherited from *murguz✻
  3. inherited from *murgī✻ — “short, slow, leisurely”
  4. inherited from myrġe
  5. inherited from myrie
  6. suffixed as merriment — “merry + -ment”

Definitions

  1. A state of enjoyable exuberance.

    • It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.

  2. Playful fun.

    • Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?
    • For to what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless our eyes and ears, nay whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at merriment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at merriment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at merriment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA