jocose
adjUK /d͡ʒəˈkəʊs/ · US /d͡ʒəˈkoʊs/
Etymology From Latin iocōsus (“humorous”), from iocus (“jest, joke”).
1
Formal given to jesting; habitually jolly
- Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?1659, John Gauden, chapter XXXI, in Ίερα Δακρυα [Hiera dakrya]. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: […], London: Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, book II (Searching the Causes and Occasions of the Church of England’s Decayes), page 251:
- Jocose flesh-eaters take a malicious delight in pointing out and enumerating to Vegetarians the many animal substances now in common use, and in taunting them with inconsistency in using them.1886, Henry S. Salt, “VII: On Certain Fallacies”, in A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 80:
1 more example
- The American people, / With grins jocose, / Always survive the fatal dose.1941, Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”, in The Face Is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 223:
2
Formal playful or humorous; characterized by joking
- Derived terms
- jocosely, jocoseness, jocoserious, jocosity, unjocose