- A joke is a
display of
humour in
which words are used
within a
specific and well-defined
narrative structure to make
people laugh and is
usually not meant...
- ball. A
particularly bad shot, or one that only hits the backboard, is
jocularly called a brick. The hang time is the
length of time a
player stays in...
- his true self to others, and who, instead,
maintains a
facade of
hollow jocularity,
later turning to a life of
alcoholism and drug
abuse before his final...
- the
University of Wisconsin,
whose Numbers From
Nowhere (1998) has been
jocularly described as "a
landmark in the
literature of
demographic fulmination"...
-
served on
toasted bread. The
original 18th-century name of the dish was the
jocular "Welsh rabbit",
which was
later reinterpreted as "rarebit", as the dish...
-
their policies if put in power. This was
disputed by
Garrett as a "short
jocular conversation".
Garrett was
comfortably re-elected for
Kingsford Smith in...
-
Oxford English Dictionary. In any case, the
phrase can be
interpreted as a
jocular expression of the
correct insight that a
single counterexample,
while sufficient...
- The
English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Gr**** φόβος phobos, "fear")
occur in
technical usage in
psychiatry to
construct words that describe...
-
iuvant repeating does good Lit: "Repeated
things help".
Usually said as a
jocular remark to
defend the speaker's (or writer's)
choice to
repeat some important...
- his true self to others, and who, instead,
maintains a
facade of
hollow jocularity. The work is made up of
three chapters, or "memoranda",
which chronicle...
