- 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...
-
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...
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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...
- The
English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Gr**** φόβος phobos, "fear")
occur in
technical usage in
psychiatry to
construct words that describe...
-
Vietnamese origin.
Fjellabe Denmark Norwegian people Means mountain ape.
Jocularly used by
Danes mostly in sports. From the 1950s.
Norway is mountainous...
- The
Jargon File, a
compendium of
hacker lore,
defines "bit rot" as a
jocular explanation for the
degradation of a
software program over time even if...
-
Resistentialism is a
jocular theory to
describe "seemingly
spiteful behavior manifested by
inanimate objects",
where objects that
cause problems (like...
- his true self to others, and who, instead,
maintains a façade of
hollow jocularity,
later turning to a life of
alcoholism and drug
abuse before his final...
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films depict "a smoky,
overcast Victorian world,
infuses it with an air of
jocular,
hairy laddishness and
stages a lot of
fights in
fussy and
tiresome slow...
- be
clarified between a
speaker and listener. One
meaning is "amusing,
jocular, droll" and the
other meaning is "odd, quirky, peculiar".
These differences...
