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Adjective

jocose (comparative more jocose, superlative most jocose) (formal)

  • given to jesting; habitually jolly
    • ✤ Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?1
    • ✤ * Jocose flesh-eaters take a malicious delight in pointing out and enumerating to Vegetarians the many animal substances now in common use, and in taunting them with inconsistency in using them.*2
    • ✤ The American people,/With grins jocose,/Always survive the fatal dose.3
  • playful or humorous; characterized by joking

Etymology

From Latin iocōsus (“humorous”), from iocus (“jest, joke”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /d͡ʒəˈkəʊs/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (US) IPA: /d͡ʒəˈkoʊs/, /d͡ʒoʊˈkoʊs/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -əʊs, (US) -oʊs

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Footnotes

  1. 1659, John Gauden, chapter XXXI, in Ίερα Δακρυα [Hiera dakrya]. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: […], London: Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, book II (Searching the Causes and Occasions of the Church of England’s Decayes), page 251: ↩

  2. 1886, Henry S. Salt, “VII: On Certain Fallacies”, in A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 80: ↩

  3. 1941, Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”, in The Face Is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 223: ↩

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