S vs Jocular - What's the difference?
s | jocular |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
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As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective jocular is
(formal) humorous]], amusing or [[joke|joking.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}jocular
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.