merriment (n.)
- amusement
- buoyancy
- celebration
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- conviviality
- elation
- enjoyment
- exhilaration
- exuberance
- exultation
- felicity
- festivity
- flippancy
- frivolity
- fun
- gaiety
- glee
- gleefulness
- happiness
- heartiness
- hilarity
- hoopla
- jocularity
- jocundity
- jollification
- jolliness
- jollity
- joviality
- joy
- joyfulness
- joyousness
- jubilance
- jubilation
- jubilee
- laughter
- levity
- merriness
- merrymaking
- mirth
- mirthfulness
- playfulness
- prankishness
- rejoicing
- revel
- revelry
- roguishness
- sportiveness
- trickery
- trickiness
- triumph
- waggery
- waggishness
- whoopee
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.