Shem is as short for Shemus as Jem is joky for Jacob. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Wed 06/07/06 11:35 PM wait,for real for real or joky-joke if so could be a good movie. From Wordnik.com. [Quid Pro Crowe: The sad tale of Russell and the journalist | EW.com] Reference
You have not heard me say a word about her dear loving mother and her big joky father, have you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference
The woman in the main post office who kept on complaining at the clerk serving her, in a slightly joky tone but getting more and more edgy. From Wordnik.com. [Slices of other people's lives] Reference
That's the conclusion of two recent studies that confirm a long-standing stereotype of flirting: that women like joky men, while men like women who laugh at their jokes. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Better All The Time #28] Reference
But his joky title covers a passionate seriousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
First of all, i would like to request the persons who take everything as a joke and r going to reply in a joky manner to be at a far distance frm this question. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Still think it's kind of hipsterish and in-joky to post something with a significant backstory, and discuss that obliquely in comments, without putting some kind of context link, however subtle, in your FPP. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
Yet, notwithstanding the somber complexion of his new vocation, and the more than somber complexion of his creed, outside of the pulpit his reverence was as genial, jolly, and joky as the cheeriest, smilingest, comfortingest, most latitudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Burl] Reference
You're the kind of a lively, joky fellow I like. ". From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Although the film may turn into camp, there was nothing joky about Heston’s performance. From Wordnik.com. [An Icon of cinema. A man with a god like figure. A legend. Charlton Heston is gone. | Obsessed With Film] Reference
That’s the conclusion of two recent studies that confirm a long-standing stereotype of flirting: that women like joky men, while men like women who laugh at their jokes. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - If you are funny, chicks think you’re hot!] Reference
Such a joky gentleman he was, too. From Wordnik.com. [Two Suffolk Friends] Reference
(three stars) - "I don't think Lenny should give up the night job, or, rather, he shouldn't regularly substitute his old joky evenings for new tragic ones; but his Moor is far better than I, or indeed he, had feared. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He juist said, in his heartsome, joky way. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
Oh! jolly is the gale, And a joker is the whale, A 'flourishin' his tail, -- Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!. From Wordnik.com. [Moby-Dick, or, The Whale] Reference
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