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- burst with joy
burst with joy
burst with joy
Fig. [for someone] to be full to the bursting point with happiness. (To be so filled with joy as if to burst.) When I got my grades, I could have burst with joy. Bill was not exactly bursting with joy when he got the news.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Koit | | - | Estonian |
Impi | | EEM-pee | Finnish |
Okoro | | - | Western African, Urhobo |
Isabell | | ee-zah-BEL | German |
Sushila | | - | Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali |
Mercedes | | mer-THE-dhes (Spanish), mer-SE-dhes (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |