jocoserious

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His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa.

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  1. Half jesting, half serious. [Rare.] Or drink a jocoserious cup With souls who've took their freedom up. Green, The Spleen.

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  • His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa. —  Ulysses
 

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  1. = Spanish jocoserio, from New Latin jocoserius, from Latin jocus, a joke, + serius, serious.
 

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