- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
broadcast two w****s later, with Mets
pitcher Ron
Darling delivering a
jocular "apology" as the cold open. The
episode scheduled for
February 10, 2001...
- 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...
- the
world in per-capita wine
consumption due to its
sacramental use. A
jocular illustration of
these anomalies is
sometimes made by
calculating a "Popes...
