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 Translation for 'jocular' from English to French
ADJ   jocular | more jocular | most jocular
SYNO jesting | jocose | jocosely | ...
badin {adj}jocular
jovial {adj}jocular
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Translation for 'jocular' from English to French

jocular
badin {adj}

jovial {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Although the naval term, 'bunting tosser' is known across the services, and may be used as a jocular insult amongst Army signallers, its use implies that the intended is only fit for the Navy.
  • The name "Psycho the rapist" is a jocular rebracketing of "psychotherapist".
  • The music is jocular, consisting of what Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh called "rinky-dink organ, honky-tonk piano, and garage-band guitar kicked along by an explosive tom-tom pattern".
  • The song begins in a rather light-hearted, jaunty fashion, a slight pastiche of country music, with honky tonk style piano and twangy guitar. Ferry's singing is nonchalant and jocular.
  • The refrain "We'll all be rooned" from his poem "Said Hanrahan" has entered colloquial Australian English as a jocular response to any prediction of dire consequences arising, particularly, from events outside the interlocutor's control.

  • The term has been considered jocular since the mid-20th century and has fallen into disuse.
  • However, phrases such as "contemplating one's navel" or "navel-gazing" are frequently used, usually in jocular fashion, to refer to self-absorbed pursuits.
  • A smoot is a jocular unit of measurement equal to 5 feet 7 inches (1.702 m).
  • In Slovenia, there is a jocular tradition that anyone who succeeds in climbing to the top of Mount Triglav receives a spanking or birching.
  • Their imperial troops were called, by the ragamuffins, caramurus or camels, a jocular term generally applied to members of the Restoration Party in the Imperial Parliament.

  • Other media reports strike a more jocular tone: in February 2018, youth website Pedestrian.tv reported, "After 8 Months Dormant, The Awful Montague Street Bridge Has Awoken To Feed".
  • Note that "dog" does not commonly figure as an offensive profanity, with expressions like "din hund!" "you dog!" being understood as jocular or archaizing.
  • This jocular remark bore testament to Vasily Petrov's undeniable talent.
  • He sometimes fired his assistants if they were inappropriately jocular, and once forcibly ejected two prospective clients for imposing restrictions on his design.
  • It also publishes satirical cartoons and jokes. The factual and jocular columns are cleanly delineated.

  • A jocular verse titled "Ballad of Domestic Calamity" attributed to M.H. Longson contains the phrase at the end of each stanza.
  • "Talapoin" is a 16th-century French word for a Buddhist monk, from Portuguese "talapão", from Mon "tala pōi" "our lord"; originally jocular, from the appearance of the monkey.
  • A kotiryssä (jocular [...] or "home Russian") was a Soviet or Russian contact person of a Finnish politician, bureaucrat, businessman or other important person.
  • For synesthete MT, “I [...] a bit of a worrier at times, although easy-going; J [...] male; appearing jocular, but with strength of character; K [...] female; quiet, responsible…” [...].
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