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JOCOSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jocose mean?
• JOCOSE (adjective)
The adjective JOCOSE has 1 sense:
1. characterized by jokes and good humor
Familiarity information: JOCOSE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by jokes and good humor
Synonyms:
jesting; jocose; jocular; joking
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Derivation:
jocoseness; jocosity (the trait of merry joking)
jocosity (fun characterized by humor)
Context examples
Thomas Mugridge, on the other hand, considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head out the galley door to make jocose remarks.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Steerforth, after very much improving Mrs. Gummidge's spirits by a cheerful salutation and a jocose embrace, took my arm, and hurried me away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The fly-drivers, among whom I inquired next, were equally jocose and equally disrespectful; and the shopkeepers, not liking my appearance, generally replied, without hearing what I had to say, that they had got nothing for me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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