glee
/ɡliː/ noun B2- Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
- Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
- An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
Plural glees
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He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying, “What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.”
“What do you think of that, Watson?” cried Holmes in high glee, rubbing his hands together with satisfaction.
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