Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of jokiness.
Innumerable legends surround Louis [Armstrong]: some about his eating prowess in the old days, many about his unchallengeable strength as a player, some about his jokeyness and lack of respect for important occasions, others about his devotion to work.
1970, Max Jones, “Seventy Years on the Throne”, in Max Jones, John Chilton, Leonard Feather, Salute to Satchmo (A Melody Maker Publication), London: IPC Specialist and Professional Press, Ltd., →OCLC, page 872 more examples
‘The discovery of this woman’s body suddenly threw a complex of apparently unrelated incidents into an integrated whole. You grind away at routine, you collect a vast amount of data ninety-per-cent of which is useless and then—some thing happens and Bingo—the other ten-per-cent sits up like Jacky and Bob’s your uncle.’ He paused, having astonished himself by this intemperate excursion into jokeyness.
1968, Ngaio Marsh, “Ramsdyke”, in Clutch of Constables, London: The Companion Book Club, →OCLC, page 125With confidence I had begun to see that the comedy that had become my writing tone, the ability to make two or three jokes to the page, the jokeyness that was my double inheritance from my Trinidad background, however good, however illuminating, was also a way of making peace with a hard world; was on the other side of hysteria.
1994, V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul, “Passenger: A Figure from the Thirties”, in A Way in the World: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 98
Origin
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