- 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...
- a reception, etc.
without taking leave of the host or hostess. Hence,
jocularly, to take
French leave is to go away, or do anything,
without permission...
-
Vietnamese origin.
Fjellabe Denmark Norwegian people Means mountain ape.
Jocularly used by
Danes mostly in sports. From the 1950s.
Norway is mountainous...
- 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...
- 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...
- (commonly
known as
urinal cakes,
urinal cookies,
urinal biscuits (or
jocularly piscuits),
urinal donuts,
toilet lollies,
trough lollies,
urinal pucks...
