jocoseadj.
/dʒə(ʊ)ˈkəʊs/, U.S. /dʒoʊˈkoʊs/, /dʒəˈkoʊs/ 1. Of persons, or their dispositions, etc.: Full of jokes: given to joking; playful, sportive, waggish.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting > that jests or jokes > inclined to jest or joke
wantonc1405
facetious1601
jocular1625
jocose1673
ludicrous1687
jokish1785
joky1825
1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 247 It was enough to depress and tame the most Jocose and bravest spirit in the World.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit i. §3 When they vouchsafe to quit their Austerity, and be jocose and pleasant with an Adversary.
1787 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 263 Jocose Clergymen..cannot but dislike those who are steadily serious.
1882 A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford I. vii. 176 That she was so far heart-whole was evident, for she could be jocose on the subject.
2. Of speech, writing, or action: Of the nature of a joke, or characterized by jokes; spoken, written, or done in joke; playful in style or character.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting > characterized by jesting or humour
jocatory1576
facetious1594
jocular1674
jocose1699
jokesome1810
humoresque1896
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 287 The Greek Satyrica was only a jocose sort of Tragedy.
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 219 There are some Words that are purely Jocose, spoken with no other Intent, but only to promote Mirth and divert Melancholy.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby v. 34 So he gave her three or four with a kind of jocose gallantry.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xix. 62 He caught the sound of jocose talk and ringing laughter from behind the hedges.
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