Adjective

He was in a jocular mood all day.

All we had was a short and jocular conversation.

From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular .

Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.

Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.

Adjective

The courtier was a jaunty fellow, attuned to the esoteric court gossip and attentive to the least beneficial wind of favor blowing from the throne.

He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.

He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.