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Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.

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  1. a. Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
  2. adj. characterized by jokes and good humor
  3. Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn. -- Jocular; facetious; witty; merry; pleasant; waggish; sportive; funny; comical. -- Jo*cose"ly, adv. -- Jo*cose"ness, n. Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity. Broome. He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life. Buckle.
  4. Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding injokes; merry; sportive; humorous.To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary.Shaftesbury.All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.
  5. s characterized by jokes and good humor