英语词汇“jocular”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

jocular

释义

▪ I. † ˈjocular, n. Obs.
Also 5 ioculer.
[a. OF. joculer, altered form (after L.) of jougler, jougleur: see juggler.]
A professional jester or minstrel.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 171 Thei be as ioculers [histriones] in behauor.1498Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VII Aug., My Lord of Oxford's Iocular.a1552Leland Collect. I. 235 A sothsayer, and iocular, and minstrelle.1806Southey in Ann. Rev. IV. 536 The Normans had joculars or minstrels.
▪ II. jocular, a.|ˈdʒɒkjʊlə(r)|
[ad. L. joculāris facetious, f. joculus, dim. of jocus joke, jest.]
1. Of persons or their dispositions: Disposed to joking or jesting; speaking or acting in jest or merriment; mirthful, merry.
1626B. Jonson Fort. Isles 56 My name is Johphiel..An airy jocular spirit.a1661Fuller Worthies, Warwickshire (1662) 126 Though his [Shakespeare's] Genius generally was jocular, and inclining him to festivity, yet he could..be solemn and serious.1716Addison Drummer ii. i, He, he, he! pardon me for being jocular.1836W. Irving Astoria III. 46 He joined, with the best grace he could assume, in the merriment of the jocular giant.
2. Of speech or action: Of the nature of, or containing, a joke; said or done in joke; comic, humorous, funny.
1674Govt. Tongue 128 Many can sooner forgive a solemn deep contrivance against them, then one of their jocular reproches.a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 65 To..interpose a jocular, and perhaps ridiculous digression.1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 12 You that delight in a jocular Song.1826Sheridaniana 160 Sheridan made some jocular reply.1871R. Ellis Catullus l. 6 Launched one arrowy metre and another, Tenders jocular o'er the merry wine-cup.
Hence ˈjocularness = next (Bailey vol. II, 1727).

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