Jolly is now quite a dated word, but you will often hear it in older movies or read it in older books, especially British ones. As an adjective, jolly means…
To rip can mean ‘to tear apart roughly’ or ‘to move at great speed.’ We have more meanings to tell you about, including what it means to “rip into someone” or to “rip someone off.”
You might already know that a twig is a small, thin shoot of a tree, wooden branch or stem, and also those same shoots when they fall from a tree, often used to start a fire. But did you know that twig is also a verb?