Crossword clues for jocularity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jocularity \joc`u*lar"i*ty\ (j[o^]k`[-u]*l[a^]r"[i^]*t[y^]), n. Jesting; merriment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Medieval Latin iocularitas "jocular, facetious," from iocularis (see jocular).
Wiktionary
n. joke, humorous remarks or behaviour.
WordNet
Usage examples of "jocularity".
After numerous little jocularities with the harlequins, especially the female ones, I recognized Therese in a domino, and walking up to her as awkwardly as I could I asked her to dance with me.
The evening was again spent with the soldiers, who did their utmost to amuse them with Greek and Albanian songs and freaks of jocularity.
He was well aware that this operation was being viewed on the security cams, could imagine the guards watching with interest and ribald jocularity.
An infantry of bellboys flanked the sides of the sunlit hall, their brass buttons glittering like crocodile eyes, their caps set at an angle that suggested jauntiness without jocularity, disarm without disrespect.
Foote was at Edinburgh, he thought fit to entertain a numerous Scotch company, with a great deal of coarse jocularity, at the expense of Dr. Johnson, imagining it would be acceptable.
There is no proportion between the powers which he shews in serious talk and in jocularity.
What they eat, for example, and their way of eating it - the noise, the open-mouthed champing, the primitive gestures, the borborygms, the belching, the roaring jocularity, the - I will spare you many aspects, but I assure you that to an educated man, who has no very robust vital principle, who knows nothing of the sea except perhaps the Dover packet, who has lived retired, and who has been much reduced by unhappiness, all these things together can bring about a morbid state, an anorexy.
Along with crew and technicians, Commander Marin, Chief Officer Deale, Second Officer Walgrave had become fleeting atoms of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, their personalities, brisk mannerisms, and jocularity now only memories.
Formal chit-chat isn't my style--a little gallantry, a few jocularities to see if she will or she won't, a pinch on the buttocks, and off we go.
She wore the sleeves of her Women's Army uniform perpetually rolled up to display chapped muscular forearms, and affected the coarse jocularity of a male psychiatric nurse.