jol

plural jols · alternative jawl

1. South AfricaslangA party.

   —Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.

   2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 249

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   I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women.

   2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times

present singular third person jols · participle present jolling · participle past jolled · past jolled · alternative jawl

1. South AfricaslangTo party.

plural jols

1. UKA barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.

   An extensive, barren desert plateau, around 1,000-1,200 m in elevation, the jol, extends eastwards from Shabwa, dropping away northwards to the sands of the Rub al Khali.

   2006, Masaa Al Jumaily, David P. Mallon, Abdul Karim Nasher, Nagi Thowabeh, “Status Report on Arabian Leopard in Yemen”, in Cat News, volume Special Volume 1, →ISSN, page 23

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   The old crystalline hills of the ‘Asir and Yemen, which to the west drop in a series of steps to the Tihamah or coastal plain, are to the east overlain by near horizontal strata of sedimentary rocks of which the oldest are probably the sandstones forming the Kaukab plateau and the newest, excluding recent deposits, are the Eocene limestones of the jol, the succession seeming more complete in the north.

   1953, D. G. Bunker, “The South-West Borderlands of the Rub' Al Khali”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 119, →DOI

   Synonyms: desert, plateau, flatland