Word.ws English Dictionary

jocularisms

jocularisms is the plural of jocularism.

Meaning of jocularism

Noun

jocularism (plural jocularisms)

  1. (countable) A jokingly contrived word or term.
    • It is clear from the contexts in which the terms appear that these terms were thought of as jocularisms from the British perspective, again demonstrating the power imbalance of the era.2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 254
  2. (uncountable) The act or practice of joking.

Questions about jocularisms

What is jocularisms the plural of?
Jocularisms is the plural of jocularism.

Words near jocularisms in the dictionary

  1. Jocsons
  2. jocteleg
  3. joctelegs
  4. jocular
  5. jocularism
  6. jocularisms
  7. jocularities
  8. jocularity
  9. jocularly
  10. jocularness
  11. joculary

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jocularisms (page history and authors); jocularism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “jocularisms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jocularisms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.