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jocular
[jocular 词源字典]
jocular:
see
joke
[jocular etymology, jocular origin, 英语词源]
jocular (adj.)
1620s, from Latin
iocularis
"funny, comic," from
ioculus
, diminutive of
iocus
(see
joke
(n.)). Implies evasion of an issue by a joke.