Rollicking vs Jocular - What's the difference?
rollicking | jocular | Related terms |
(UK) A scolding, a bollocking.
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carefree, merry and boisterous
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(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
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Rollicking is a related term of jocular.
As adjectives the difference between rollicking and jocular
is that rollicking is carefree, merry and boisterous while jocular is (formal) humorous]], amusing or [[joke|joking.As a verb rollicking
is .As a noun rollicking
is (uk) a scolding, a bollocking.rollicking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).}}
Synonyms
* rollicksomejocular
English
Adjective
(en 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.
