- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
- and that if he had
written anything along those lines, it was "a half-
jocular overstatement". He was a
subscriber to the People's World, a Communist...
-
films depict "a smoky,
overcast Victorian world,
infuses it with an air of
jocular,
hairy laddishness and
stages a lot of
fights in
fussy and
tiresome slow...
- into
central Europe. A
dwarf perennial suitable for rock gardens, it was
jocularly said by John
Lindley to be "known only in the
gardens of botanists". Its...
