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English
Etymology
Blend of jocose + serious.
Pronunciation
Adjective
jocoserious (comparative more jocoserious, superlative most jocoserious)
- Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.
- Synonyms: half joking, semiserious
1880, Goldwin Smith, chapter VII, in Cowper:Our proposed removal to Mr. Small's was, as you suppose, a jest, or rather a joco-serious matter. We never looked upon it as entirely feasible, yet we saw in it something so like practicability, that we did not esteem it altogether unworthy of our attention. It was one of those projects which people of lively imaginations play with, and admire for a few days, and then break in pieces.
1885, L.G.W., “Review of Current Literature”, in The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, volume XXIII:“His genius was jocular; but, when disposed, he could be very serious.” It is a part of his joco-serious vein of late.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Chapter 17:Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of hospitality? 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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