joy-bell

English

Noun

joy-bell (plural joy-bells)

  1. A church bell.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 17:
      "That bloody Jock Keir with the money rattling in his pocket. Tack wallah's joy-bells."
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