jokingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English joking

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English jokingly

From joking + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒoʊ.kɪŋ.li/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒəʊ.kɪŋ.liː/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈdʒəʊ.kɪŋ.lɪ]

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Adverb

jokingly (comparative more jokingly, superlative most jokingly)

1. In a joking manner.
   • 2015, Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game‎^[1], Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.

   • 2019 July 5, Michael Bartiromo, “Gordon Ramsay and Lil Nas X meet up to make panini sandwiches, play with knives”, in Fox News‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 August 2019:

     Ramsay and Lil Nas X’s panini party comes less than two weeks after the latter had jokingly asked the “Masterchef” star to make a guest appearance on the remix of his latest single, “Panini.”

Derived terms

• half-jokingly
• unjokingly

Translations

jokingly

• Esperanto: ŝerce
• Polish: żartem, żartobliwie (pl), w żartobliwy sposób