Crossword-Solution: JOCOSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jocose | a. | Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “JOCOSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sportively humorous. | 1 answer |
| Humorously playful | 1 answer |
| Given to prankishness | 1 answer |
| Given to merriment | 1 answer |
| Given to jesting | 2 answers |
| Full of merriment | 3 answers |
| Rib-tickling | 5 answers |
| Good-humored | 6 answers |
| Jocular | 20 answers |
| Witty | 28 answers |
| sportive | 56 answers |
| Waggish | 59 answers |
| humorous | 59 answers |
| Facetious | 60 answers |
| amusing | 61 answers |
| playful | 65 answers |
| comical | 68 answers |
| Merry | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JOCOSE (5)
What is it?” “It is the proud consciousness of honest toil—of having manufactured a few wash-tubs,” said Newman, at once jocose and serious.
The Blight was very quiet at lunch, as was the little sister, and my effort to be jocose was a lamentable failure.
You must begin to reel and plunge towards the door at least two blocks before your destination, so as to leap to the ground when the car slows up; otherwise the conductor will be offended with you, and carry you several squares too far, or with a jocose "Step lively," will grasp your elbow and shoot you out.
Now, I do see--and that's why I'm Norman." Tetlow looked at him doubtfully, uncertain whether he had been listening to wisdom put in a jocose form of audacious egotism or to the effervescings of intoxication.
Formerly she had been noted for her amiability, for her vanity easily pleased with a careless compliment from no matter whom--a jocose, half-drunken ash man, half-jeering, half-admiring from his cart seat quite as satisfactory as anybody.
Quotes with JOCOSE (2)
On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.
The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed over the years, but the common medical consensus currently has jocose, verbose, morose, bellicose, lachrymose, comatose, adios. This is a workable but incomplete system, as it fails to take in otiose (meaning impractical) which comes just after jocose. Nor does it have grandiose preceding bellicose. And how they managed to miss out globose (amorphous or formless) before comatose is beyond me.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1969–2021).