| 单词 | joking |
| 释义 | joking (once / 1149 pages) adj You can describe something that's funny, lighthearted, or flippant as joking. A joking manner can be a good quality in a kids' dentist and a not-so-good quality in a funeral director. A joking birthday card might tease the recipient about his advanced age, and a joking tone in an interviewer's voice keeps the mood light and playful. When you're in a joking mood, you're full of good humor. At the heart of the adjective joking is joke, originally joque, from the Latin iocus, "joke, sport, or pastime." WORD FAMILYjoking: jokingly+/joke: joked, joker, jokes, jokester, joking/joker: jokers/jokester: jokesters USAGE EXAMPLES“I trust these people. … He’s getting to be himself. He’s Eugene again. Laughing and joking and wanting to do things.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The effect is a dark Scheherazade charm, as if this personality is joking for its life. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) According to investigation documents obtained by the Miami Herald, the officers told an investigator they were only joking. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) adj characterized by jokes and good humor Syn jesting, jocose, jocular humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor |
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