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The state of being flabbergasted. [Jocular] London Punch.

An inhabitant of New York city. [Jocular] Irving.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

Facetiousness; jocularity.

A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo." Goldsmith.

having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre. "An ogreish kind of jocularity." Dickens.

An old person. [Jocular] H. Kingsley.

A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility. Shak.

Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language. The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment. Macaulay.

A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.

a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. Locke. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving.

e German term wälsch foreign. -- Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. & Jocular] J. Fletcher. -- Welsh rabbit. See under Rabbit.