glee 
glee (glē)
noun
- lively joy; gaiety; merriment
- an English part song for three or more unaccompanied, usually men's, voices
Etymology: ME gle < OE gleo, entertainment, merriment, akin to (rare) ON glȳ < IE *ghleu-, to be merry, jest < base *ghel-, to cry out > Gr chleuē, jest
Converse of object
- take: In the meantime, take glee in the fact that I'm once again without a laptop.
- feel: In the silence which followed his comment I must confess to having felt a certain childlike glee.
- imagine: Imagine the glee when it came in ( £ 750 for a tenner ).
- mean: Gliondar it means glee in Irish Gaelic formed in 1998 after meeting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
- remember: I can still remember the glee with which we demolished some of the silly recommendations of one particular Select Committee.
- hear: Try to get the opportunity to hear a glee.
Preposition: at
- prospect: The reason he is rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of a nation consumed by the beautiful game is purely professional.
- thought: It's unofficial right now, but the Kings must be rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of Artest.
Adjective modifier
- childish: He stopped and looked, then laughed with childish glee, - " Why wait ye here without?
- malicious: The Guardian obituary describes his roles as juggling " mischievousness, a sardonic wit, and a malicious glee " .
- great: The children came at 3 with flags &c, and singing and in great glee.
- high: Your brother was in high glee that to play our parts properly we were obliged to sleep together.
- much: Cruickshank boasts breadth and depth, bubbling with as much glee over the VW Beetle as the Taj Mahal.
- such: Why did so many feel such glee at this result?
Modifies a noun
- club: Didn't think much of glee club this year.
- singer: The Lyric glee singers gave a varied selection of glees, songs &c, in a most artistic manner.
- party: Tredegar Orpheus Male Voice Choir, South Wales Formed in 1909 from two choirs, the glee party and a small chapel choir.
Noun used with modifier
- childhood: C ould you see businessmen on a bus swapping cards by phone with some childhood glee?
Preposition: in
- anticipation: Let's move onto the subject that has me rubbing my hands with glee in anticipation: PGR3 on Xbox LIVE.
The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for manya joke had he.
Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a school-girl well can be Filled to the brim with girlish glee.
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me, 'Pipe a song about a lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again!' So I piped. He wept to hear.
Come, gie's a sang, Montgomery cry'd, And lay your disputes a'aside; What signifies't for folks to chide For what's been done before them? Let Whig and Torya'agree, Whig and Tory,Whig and Tory, Whig and Tory a'agree To drop their whigmigmorum; Let Whig and Torya'agree To spend this night wi'mirth and glee, And cheerfu'sing, alang wi'me, The Reel o' Tullochgorum.
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