| Back | jocose \joh-KOHS, juh-\ |
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| Front | adjective Given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner. The jocose talk of hay-makers is best at a distance; like those clumsy bells round the cows' necks, it has rather a coarse sound when it comes close, and may even grate on your ears painfully... - George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859 Lord Boardotrade was there, making semi-jocose speech, quite in the approved way for a cognate paterfamilias. - Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel, 1878 |
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