Fwd: jocose: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2013/12/7
Subject: jocose: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Saturday, December 7, 2013 jocose \joh-KOHS, juh-\, adjective: given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner. The jocose talk of hay-makers is best at a distance; like those clumsy bells round the cows' necks, it has rather a coarse sound when it comes close, and may even grate on your ears painfully... -- George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859 Lord Boardotrade was there, making semi-jocose speech, quite in the approved way for a cognate paterfamilias. -- Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel, 1878 Jocose comes from the Latin jocōsus meaning "joking." It entered English in the 1600s. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Word Watch 2013: -splain The term mansplaining received the high honor of being nominated as one of the "most creative" new words at the American Dialect Society 2012 Word of the Year vote. In addition to being creative, this term, particularly the -splaining part, has proven to be incredibly robust and useful as a combining form in 2013, and... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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