jokey
/ˈdʒəʊki
/(also joky)
adjective (jokier, jokiest)
Not serious; teasing or humorous: a brief exchange of jokey comments...
- Ryan's whole body tensed up and his jokey, light-hearted aura dissipated in a second.
- ‘The police officer was quite jokey at the end of the conversation, but said I'd have to remove the advert,’ he added.
- Working for opposing stations the two men relished the jokey adversarial relationship they shared - one which continues until today.
Derivatives
jokily
- ‘Sometimes it's quite nice to have him around, actually,’ she says, jokily but with an underlying tenderness.
- Thomas seems an unlikely candidate for what she jokily calls ‘a quarter-life crisis’.
- Bush senior had jokily asked for a seat near the back so that no one would see him crying with emotion.
jokiness
- Byford, a large man whose boyish jokiness can suddenly give way to stern-faced impatience, suddenly grew colder.
- Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism.
- Overt jokiness would damage the film's dramatic approach.
Rhymes
- school-scholar
- school section
- school shark
- school ship
- schools inspector
- school snapper
- school sores
- schools program
- schools programme
- schools television
- school subject
- schoolteacher
- schoolteaching
- school time
- school trustee
- school vacation
- school voucher
- school wage
- schoolward
- schoolwards
- schoolwork
- schooly
- schoolyard
- school year
- schooner