- 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...
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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
earliest recorded use is 1725 as "Welsh rabbit" (possibly
ironic or
jocular as the dish
contains no rabbit); the
earliest do****ented use of "Welsh...
- 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...
-
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...
-
Resistentialism is a
jocular theory to
describe "seemingly
spiteful behavior manifested by
inanimate objects",
where objects that
cause problems (like...
- The
English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Gr**** φόβος phobos, "fear")
occur in
technical usage in
psychiatry to
construct words that describe...
-
usually considered offensive."
People from the
white South sometimes jocularly call
themselves "rednecks" as
insider humor. An
alternative origin story...
-
Vietnamese origin.
Fjellabe Denmark Norwegian people Means mountain ape.
Jocularly used by
Danes mostly in sports. From the 1950s.
Norway is mountainous...
