| 单词 | jocose |
| 释义 | jocose (once / 5054 pages) adj Your friend Robert who always makes funny observations and light-hearted quips? He’s jocose, meaning he's good humored and jokes around a lot. Latin may not seem like a lot of laughs sometimes, but it is responsible for injecting a little humor into English words that have their origins in jocus, the Latin word meaning "joke" or "jest." Jocose, jocular, joke — they all come from jocus. Jocose first came into English in the seventeenth century as a way to describe something that’s characterized by a playful, merry humor. WORD FAMILYjocose: jocosely, jocoseness, jocoser, jocosity+/jocosity: jocosities USAGE EXAMPLESIf they had one thing in common it was that all of them were slightly wayward, rough-hewn, jocose. The New Yorker(Oct 12, 2015) If they had one thing in common it was that all of them were slightly wayward, rough-hewn, jocose. The New Yorker(Oct 12, 2015) The tone of Philemon is hopeful, sprightly, even jocose. Bacon, Benjamin Wisner, The Making of the New Testament(2012) adj characterized by jokes and good humor Syn jesting, jocular, joking humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor |
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