Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclined to joke; jocular.

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Examples

  • Ok, it was probably made in a "jokish" way and you didn't want to create troubles, but for someone who is not used to your blog, it could have looked like a smear it looked like a LibDem type "dirty trick"!

    The Campaign Group "Dream Ticket" Kerron Cross 2006

  • The "Expendable" series is fun and funny, a bit in-jokish in some respects but still accessible.

    What SF would you recommend to a non-reader? 2009

  • Whereupon I, being of a jokish disposition, did, unexpectedly and contrary to usage, cry "Baa" loudly, causing my mother-in-law to fear that I was a dull -- until that night in the Zenana she had the great happiness to overhear me outwitting all the females present by the sprightliness of my badinage.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

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