jokingly
advUS /ˈdʒoʊ.kɪŋ.li/ · UK /ˈdʒəʊ.kɪŋ.liː/
Etymology From joking + -ly.
1
In a joking manner.
- San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.2015, Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- half-jokingly, unjokingly