merry¹ /merˈi/

1. Sportive
2. Cheerful
3. Noisily gay
4. Causing laughter
5. Pleasant (obsolete)
6. Enlivened by drink, tipsily cheerful
7. Lively
8. Used as an intensifier of hell, as in play merry hell with

merrˈily adverb

merrˈiment noun

1. Gaiety with laughter and noise
2. Mirth
3. Hilarity

merrˈiness noun

merry-anˈdrew noun

1. A quack's assistant (historical)
2. A buffoon
3. A clown

merry dancers plural noun (Scot)

The aurora borealis

merry England noun

An idealistically jovial picture of life in England in the past, esp in Elizabethan times (as used orig, eg by Spenser, the phrase meant ‘fair, pleasant England’)

merrˈy-go-round noun

1. A revolving ring of wooden horses, etc for riding at a funfair
2. A roundabout
3. A whirl of activity, etc (figurative)
4. Any activity inclined to circularity (figurative)

• after-dinners
• aftereffect
• aftereffects
• aftereye
• aftereyed
• aftereyeing
• aftereyes
• aftereying
• aftergame
• alms-deeds
• alms-dish
• alms-dishes
• alms-drink
• alms-drinks
• alms-fee
• alms-fees
• alms-folk
• almsgiving
• almsgivings
• almshouse
• almshouses
• alms-man
• alms-men
• alms-woman
• alms-women