JOCULAR, JOCULARITY
ADJECTIVES
► BOURDFUL full of jesting or sport; jocular, jocose, sportive → 1388 obs.
► BURLESQUE droll in look, manner, or speech; jocular; odd, grotesque → 1656 obs.
► GAMING sportive, jocular → 1552 obs.
► JOCATORY characterized by joking; jocular, jesting, merry → 1576 obs.
► JOCOSERIOUS half jocular, half serious; blending jokes and serious matters → M17
► JOCULATORY having the character of a jester; uttered in jest; jocular, droll, humorous, sportive, merry, jesting → 1623 obs.
► JOKEYFIED jocular → 1929 Amer. dial.
► LUDICROUS pert. to play or sport; sportive; intended in jest, jocular, derisive → 1619 obs.
NOUNS
► FUNNIOSITY humour, jocularity → 1876
► WAGGERY mischievous drollery, practical joking; jocularity → 1594
► WAGGISHNESS sportive mischief; jocularity of speech or behaviour → 1625
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