Слово "glee". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

They were both naked, and raising a rumpus that brought everyone in the apartment into the hall to watch, each couple in a bedroom doorway, all of them naked except the aproned and sweatered old woman, who clucked reprovingly, and the lecherous, dissipated old man, who cackled aloud hilariously through the whole episode with a kind of avid and superior glee.

"What do you think of that, Watson?" cried Holmes in high glee, rubbing his hands together with satisfaction.

There was a murmur of glee that died suddenly when Mr. Link Deas said,

What do you mean by that word?’ Philip Philipovich angrily enquired of an unfortunate cardboard duck hanging upside down by the sideboard, then answered the question himself. ‘I’ll tell you what it is: if instead of operating every evening I were to start a glee club in my apartment, that would mean that I was on the road to ruin.