- 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...
-
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...
- unknown,
though the
earliest recorded use is 1725 as "Welsh rabbit", a
jocular name as the dish
contains no rabbit; the
earliest do****ented use of "Welsh...
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Resistentialism is a
jocular theory to
describe "seemingly
spiteful behavior manifested by
inanimate objects",
where objects that
cause problems (like...
- 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...
-
Beethoven maintains a
playful jocularity throughout much of the piece, but as in many of his
early works, the
jocular style can be
heard as a facade...
- Typically, the term is used in a
pejorative sense to
connote disdain,
jocular lack of appreciation, or
distrust of the
message being presented or the...
-
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...
-
Cartoon physics or
animation physics are
terms for a
jocular system of laws of
physics (and biology) that su****des the
normal laws, used in animation...
- not used in any
human language as a
building block of words,
apart from
jocular exceptions such as the name of the comic-book
character Joe Btfsplk. However...