joll

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒəʊl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dʒoʊl/

From Middle English jollen, (also chollen), perhaps from Middle English jolle (“head”), itself a blend of Middle English cholle (“throat, gullet”) and jawle, a variant of Middle English chavel (“jaw”).

joll (third-person singular simple present jolls, present participle jolling, simple past and past participle jolled)

1. (dialectal) To bump, knock; push.
2. (UK, dialectal) To walk clumsily; stagger; lurch.

joll (plural jolls)

1. Alternative form of jol (“a party”).

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یول (yol).

joll m (plural jolle) (archaic, rare)

1. way, road

   Synonyms: udhë, rrugë

2. width

   Synonym: gjerësi

• Jungg, G. (1895) “joλ”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 50b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*joll”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 231

joll n

1. (regional, Hälsingland region) (childish) silliness

   Har hon inte vågat åka ner för rutschkanan än? Vilket joll!

   Hasn't she dared go down the slide yet? What silliness!

   Ska de förbjuda det där nu också? Vilket joll!

   Are they going to make that illegal now too? How silly!

Often of people being (too) hesitant to do things, but also generally of things considered (childishly) ridiculous.

• jolla
• jollig

• joll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)