Jocular \ JOK-yuh-luhr \ (adjective) - 1 : Given to joking or jesting. 2 : Characterized by joking; playful.
"He had not been a jocular man, and occasionally, while she was laughing with Bob, she had caught him studying her, covertly, as if she were of some alien, and slightly frightening, species." -- Gabrielle Donnelly, 'The Girl in the Photograph '
Jocular comes from Latin jocularis, from joculus, diminutive of jocus, "joke."
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