Obs. slang. [f. JOLLY a.: cf. dial. jollus fat, fleshy, jollock jolly, hearty, sb. (slang) a parson.] (See quot.)

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a. 1797.  W. Mason, Ode to Sir Fl. Norton, 12. And find it the same easy thing To hit a Jollux or a king. (Poems (1810), 419/1, Note, A phrase used by the bon ton for a fat person.)

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