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• s  full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  have a merry Christmas
  peals of merry laughter
• s  offering fun and gaiety
  a merry evening
• s  quick and energetic
  a merry chase

• The merry-go-round is not just a simple piece of playground equipment.

• gay
• jocund
• jolly
• jovial
• mirthful
• festal
• festive
• alert
• brisk
• lively
• rattling
• snappy
• spanking
• zippy

News & Articles

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• Gilligan's Gourmet: Goat curry
  We are savoring our last few days in Jamaica. Eating and drinking and generally being merry! I have been on a staple diet of Red Stripe and Curried goat, so I get the bed to myself most nights!
  June 29, 2013 - Irish Central
• Merry-Go-Round Museum celebrates history
  The Merry-Go-Round Museum in Sandusky is dedicated to preserving the old horses and the art of the ride.
  June 28, 2013 - News Channel 5 Cleveland
• New Fermilab director takes ‘wait and see’ approach to new programs
  Fermilab has had its share of merry jokesters in its top spot before, but Nigel Lockyer may be the first director in the lab’s history to make quite so many jokes at Canada’s expense. In his first address to the Fermilab community, the newly named director — a Scottish-born American citizen who grew up in Canada — said he’d received a number of congratulatory emails. “My favorite,” Lockyer said ...
  June 28, 2013 - The Beacon News

Quotes

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• Mike Huckabee in International Herald Tribune
  And on behalf of all of us, God bless and Merry Christmas,Huckabee says.
• Dana Perino in Los Angeles Times
  The president "asked them to pass on to their colleagues his appreciation and his wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy new year," Perino said.
• Dusty Baker in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Well, it ain't Merry Christmas or Happy New Year for somebody,Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker said.