- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Vietnamese origin.
Fjellabe Denmark Norwegian people Means mountain ape.
Jocularly used by
Danes mostly in sports. From the 1950s.
Norway is mountainous...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
